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Family Pictures and Stories

Black History Month Photo Sessions

Celebrate your family story. Free portraits and oral history interviews celebrating Black history in families of all forms—chosen, multi-generational, queer, migrant. Six slots available.

Honoring Black History Through Family Portraits and Storytelling Sessions

This Black History Month, The REACH Center invites you to join a powerful celebration of living Black history, honoring family, legacy, and community through our Family Portrait and Storytelling Series. This project honors the beauty, resilience, and diversity of Black families in New Orleans while centering the importance of communal storytelling.

We're offering 6 free portrait sessions paired with oral history interviews that capture not just your image, but your family's unique story, legacy, and definition of what family means to you.

Limited to 6 families. 

What is family? 

You decide. Whether you're a multi-generational household, chosen family, queer family, migrant family, single parent and child, grandparents raising grandchildren, or any other configuration—your family's story deserves to be celebrated and preserved.

Each session includes:

• Family Portrait: 2 - 4 images
• Oral history interview exploring your family's journey, traditions, and what binds you together
• A lasting contribution to our community archive of Black family narratives

This year, The REACH Center is focusing on the importance of communal storytelling, and this family portrait series kicks off that vital work. Your participation helps weave the rich tapestry of Black life and family in New Orleans.

Sponsored by The Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.

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