Roy Stryker Photographers is doing the same thing as Roy Stryker in the 1930s: showing the life of American people today. They are using only film documentary photographers, so that they can be assured that the photographs in the collection are authentic, and not photoshopped. And also to avoid the glut of submissions from phone snappers. The goal is for film photographers to contribute to the collection, build it out to represent American life–the most ordinary and extraordinary parts of life here in the U.S.–in all 50 states. We live in a time where we label people liberal or conservative, 1% or 99%er. What are we really? Do we even know? Is the Facebook picture our best side forward and not even true? Perhaps we’re not seeing the real America? If we had an accurate look of what our family or neighbors with opioid addiction looks like, or back from war with PTSD, or with a successful new business, or how they are training for the Olympics, or how they get by and not go to bed hungry–all kinds of real stories, positive and negative–could we impact Americans? ‘Showing America to Americans’! The news and the political climate make it seem like liberals and conservatives are worlds apart. But do we even know each other? Or are we just going off the stereotypes in our heads?
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