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	TITLE: Titus Brooks-Heagins: Portraits
	Director: Olympia Stone Genre: Arts Documentary Format: HD Composer: Contributors: Company: Floating Stone Productions Runtime: 56' minutes. ID: 487.

SYNOPSIS

This documentary explores the work of photographer Titus Brooks-Heagins, and the challenging question his photos pose about the systemic and casual exclusions and neglect of society's most vulnerable communities of colour in America. Humanizing, reverend and confrontational, Titus' photographs document the overlooked people who, usually through some intersection of poverty, race or gender/sexual identity, exist as outsiders. He describes his work as “confronting viewers in their personal spaces to move the position of otherness closer to a normative construction of self”.

It is that most human dichotomy of hope and despair that Titus captures in his work, which is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian and many other US museums.