Images from the *Portraits of Change* Exhibition that was up at PlatteForum from November 5-19, 2021.

Portraits of Change is a provocative photo archival collection and short narrative film by husband/wife duo Jonathan (Afro Indigenous) and Letishia Kelley (Diné). We witnessed the injustice of the police killing an unarmed black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis on video. We saw how the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the Lakota Indigenous Tribes and the United States was broken again on July 3rd, 2020, as a Fourth of July celebration was held on sacred tribal lands without the approval of the Lakota Tribal Council. We’ve felt this current civil rights revolution coming to a boiling point in America and the Coronavirus only helped to push us past that breaking point in the summer of 2020. This historical collection of photographs and video footage that we captured of these protests for civil rights, reparations, justice, equality, and the returning of Indigenous lands will take you on an emotional visual journey through the uprisings in Minneapolis and Mount Rushmore.

We need to display a different narrative than the one the national media has portrayed. These images evoke awareness, unity, and solidarity in our communities. We hope that justice is served for the BIPOC movement. Place yourself in the atmosphere. Feel the energy. Will it change you? Do you see the portraits of change? Revolutions like the one we are witnessing take the courage and the heart of all the people on the frontlines to risk our lives and our freedoms to affect the changes we want to see in our American society. As a result of our tremendous bravery, we are proud to have produced a collection of powerful imagery that we have eloquently titled Portraits of Change.

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Tour the Exhibition

Portraits of Change by Jonathan and Letishia Kelley Exhibition dates: Nov. 5th Opening Reception

November 5th-19th, 2021

2700 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205