“When you get to know somebody, we tend to make our own personal assessments about them,” Boulder County-based photographer Dona Laurita said. “It’s almost like looking at t…
A girl’s silhouette gazes at a flock of monarch butterflies, their orange wings vivid against a bleak wintery backdrop. Titled “From Broken Trees,” the piece,“The girl actually witnessed some of her family members, her mother and her baby sister, being killed by the Taliban. She’s from Afghanistan,” Laurita said in an interview with the Denver Post.
Now divided into five iterations, “The Silhouette Project” has told the stories of marginalized and vulnerable communities, including immigrants and refugees, for more than a decade. In the third iteration of her project, “The Silhouette Project: Of Cancer Through the Lens of Love,” Laurita captured the silhouettes and stories of adolescent and young adult cancer patients.
She has spent the last year capturing the stories of around 30 students. Often assisted by translators, Laurita interviews her subjects, discussing their journey and what each photograph should convey. “I would love to do this for the rest of my career,” Laurita said. “I just feel very passionate about helping young people be seen and heard in a creative way and providing a voice for them.”“Newcomers have seen things you would never want to see,” Karen Vittetoe, an English as a Second Language teacher at Denver South, told Laurita during an interview for the project in 2023. “They have scars from blasted glass or fires or untreated childhood diseases.
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