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Kelli Anderson, Dallas, TX to DC ✈️ Brand Photographer and Storyteller - Member @blackwomenphotographers
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“The bridge I must be is the bridge to my own power.” — Donna Kate Rushin, “The Bridge Poem,” 1981

A silent animated reflection on a poem that keeps on meeting me in new ways.

Concept + Creative Direction: Jess Solomon Animation + Design: Kelli Anderson (@sojournals @black.toyadvntr)

From This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa.

The copy pictured at the end was gifted to me by Valerie Maynard. Her handwritten notes send me + keep us in conversation across space and time. Write in your books!😘 by @sojournals.creative

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At the Pool: A short photo series reflecting on moments of joy captured on the National Mall in front of the Reflecting Pool before its current altered state— A couple celebrating their engagement.

#reflectingpool #nationalmalldc #blackwomenphotographers #egagementphotography #morningsession taken in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by @sojournals.creative

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At the Pool: A photo series reflecting on moments of joy captured on the National Mall in front of the Reflecting Pool before its current altered state—a summer morning with the Onate family, July 2024.

#reflectingpool #nationalmalldc #blackwomenphotographers #familyvacations #morningsession taken in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by @sojournals.creative

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At the Pool: A short photo series reflecting on moments of joy captured on the National Mall in front of the Reflecting Pool before its current altered state—a late morning start with a multigenerational family from Houston that planned to see the Cherry Blossoms but arrived a bit too late in the season. Early April 2024.

#reflectingpool #nationalmalldc #blackwomenphotographers #familyvacations #morningsession taken in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool by @sojournals.creative

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At the Pool: A photo series reflecting on moments of joy captured on the National Mall in front of the Reflecting Pool before its current altered state—an early morning with the Kelsey family on Spring Break in April 2024.

#reflectingpool #nationalmalldc #blackwomenphotographers #familyvacations #morningsession taken in National Mall, Washington DC by @sojournals.creative

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Meet Ms. Jacqueline Bowman aka Ms. Jackie.
Ms. Jackie is an arts instructor at the We Creation Center in South Dallas — teaching hands-on vocational skills-sewing, fashion merchandising, and fragrance design for candles, perfumes, and body oils to middle school students at St. Philip’s School and Community Center. The program has the larger goal of equipping young people with real entrepreneurial skills. But her reach doesn’t stop with the youth.

The We Creation Center, a “hub for human-centered design and innovation” is a collaboration of St. Phillip’s and Dallas Designing Dreams, a community space open to anyone who wants to learn — and Ms. Jackie makes herself available to everyone. It was through St. Philip’s Senior Programs that she began building relationships with a group of women by volunteering to join them on senior field trips. Those field trips became get-togethers. Those get-togethers became something she describes as “a sister circle for the prevention of suffering and silence.”
Every cape and hat the ladies are wearing was designed and created by Ms. Jackie herself — revealed as a surprise on the day of this portrait session. A gift, from her hands and her heart.
She doesn’t show up because she has to. She shows up because she wants to. And the difference is written all over every face in these photos. 🧡
📸 Photographed at the Moody Performing and Fine Arts Center at St. Philip’s School and Community Center, South Dallas.

#SouthDallas #dallasliving #StPhilips1600 #blackwomenphotographers #dallasphotographers taken in St. Philip's School & Community Center by @sojournals.creative

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What you’re looking at is more than a portrait session.
About a year and a half ago, Ms. Jacqueline Bowman (far left in peach) began volunteering through St. Philip’s School and Community Center Senior Programs, leading sewing get-togethers at the We Creation Center in South Dallas. What started as a class grew into something much deeper. Ms. Jackie describes what they’ve built together as “a sister circle for the prevention of suffering and silence.”
Every hat. Every cape. Every detail these women are wearing — Ms. Jackie designed and created them herself, out of her heart, as a gift to women she believes deserve to be seen and celebrated.
I was just there to make sure the world could see it.
📸 Photographed at the Moody Performing and Fine Arts Center at St. Philip’s School and Community Center, South Dallas.
#southdallas #stphilips1600 #sistercircles #blackwomenphotographers taken in St. Philip's School & Community Center by @sojournals.creative

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People watching on the Tidal Basin during peak bloom for the Cherry Blossoms.

#explorerpage #cherryblossomseason #springportraits #dcportraitphotographer #nationalmall taken in Tidal Basin Washington DC by @sojournals.creative

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I had a wonderful outing with The AGAPE Ministry @uniontempledc to experience the @museumofbible - I was invited by my good friend @jadeflowerfoster who organized our museum trip, and everyone was delightful, warm, and friendly! I look forward to joining them again for some after church fellowship in the city.

#museumart #agape #churchfriends #dcportraitphotographer #dcphotographers taken in Museum of the Bible by @sojournals.creative

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Hello satin doll. Isn't she lovely?🌷 taken in Washington D. C. by @sojournals.creative

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Documenting this group of amazing women artists at work was such a joy! There was magic in every moment of this theatrical experience and I’m grateful for the opportunity to have captured it. Thank you for the invitation @marjuancanady

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Creating is easy with this Dream Team! 💫

This piece “Imagine” is made possible with support from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Social Impact’s Local Theater Residency program

“Imagine” by @marjuancanady
Music by @amykbormet
Choreography by @spontaneousout
Performed by @chelseadeee & @sunflower.glow

Thank you to the @kennedycenter Social Impact Local Theater Residency!

📷 @sojournals.creative

#KenCenREACH #storyteller #producer #dctheatre #artistatwork #kennedycenter #dcphotographer #dcevents #dcartists #documentaryphotography taken in The REACH at the Kennedy Center by @sojournals.creative

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