Ferguson Voices, Disrupting The Frame With Stories Of Action, Courage, And Transformation
On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Lives were forever changed that day, and two organizations — PROOF: Media for Social Justice and the University of Dayton Human Rights Center — set out to document the experiences of ordinary citizens in moments of crisis. TOKY was selected to create an interactive website to amplify these stories.
In May of 2016, nine University of Dayton students and their advisors traveled to Ferguson to interview individuals affected by the unrest in August 2014. Each story pairs with a striking portrait of the interviewee, photographed by Mark Katzman with additional portraits by Geoff Story.
