PhotoVoice is an exhibition that highlights lived experiences through storytelling and photography, using the historic cyanotype process. Designed to engage diverse audiences, the project combines artistic expression with community-driven narratives to illuminate themes of identity, loss, resilience, and belonging.
Citizen artists are responding to the prompt “What does culture mean to you?” through the participatory Photovoice process led by Jon Cox, Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of Delaware, and Andy Bale, Visiting Professor at Dickinson College. Refugees, immigrants, asylum seekers, and those closely connected to them are loaned digital cameras to document their experiences. These personal images are later transformed into one-of-a-kind prints using the cyanotype process during hands-on workshops and paired with captions written in their own words. Presented together, the photographs and texts highlight shared connections, common experiences, and a sense of belonging, inviting visitors to reflect on both the similarities that unite us and the diverse paths that shape our communities.
Image: Generational culture. Anastasiia Vovchenko. Cyanotype.
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This project is made possible through the generous support of the University of Delaware Wilmington Partnership Mini-Grant, the participants and staff of Jewish Family Services (JFS) Delaware, the Delaware Division of the Arts, the 2025 Paul J. Rickards, Jr. Teaching Innovation Grant, IT Academic Technology Services, and the Department of Art and Design at the University of Delaware. Special thanks to Jon Cox, Associate Professor of Art and Design and Polly Zavadivker, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Delaware; and Andy Bale, Lecturer in Art and Art History at Dickinson College.