“I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
That line from Maya Angelou’s poem “Human Family” still resonates more than two decades after it was first published. The AjA Project’s new photography installation at the San Diego Museum of Man, “Inter+FACE,” brings it home.
A complement to “Race: Are We So Different?,” the museum’s recently acquired, permanent exhibition “Inter+FACE” consists of more than 60 self-portraits made by local teens, accompanied by a mini-documentary and interviews. Surrounding the images is a woven structure designed by AjA Project creative director Shinpei Takeda. He likens it to a shelter or hijab, a form of protection.
