Portraits in Motion

Behind every story a human face. Ripple Series Vignettes speaks to the universality of everyday, human experience and the power of personal narrative to convey the gamut of life’s triumphs and tragedies.  Featuring stories from “our own backyard,” this multi-topic, web-based series of five to ten minute shorts explores the lives of a diverse set individuals who dwell behind the headlines and within our own communities.

In an effort to diversify and expand the thematic content of The Ripple Project as a whole, Ripple Series Vignettes aims to contextualize far-reaching and powerful issues through a window of the familiar, day-to-day interactions of real people. Too often, that which escapes immediate experience is exiled to the realm of “news and entertainment.” Vignettes endeavors to familiarize the unfamiliar and connect people from around the world with the salient stories of ordinary individuals, families and communities living in the shadow of extraordinary events whose rippling effects forge a web of common humanity.

Vignettes:

Benjamin Graham-Brighton Beach

Paul Angell Plainfield, Vermont

What is Missing

A Day at Zuccotti Park