For the annual Community Arts Initiative Artist Project, Boston-based artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (born in Seoul, South Korea, 1990) worked with more than 150 students from 12 partner organizations around the city to make a work that represents their communities and their birth and chosen families. In addition to regular visits at each group’s community center, the students spent time with Lee in the MFA galleries looking at family portraits made by a variety of artists over the centuries. They then envisioned their own ideas of community and family life through the practice of cyanotype. One of the earliest forms of camera-less photography, the cyanotype process produces distinctive blue-toned prints through the exposure of photosensitive salts to light.
Learn more: https://www.mfa.org/exhibition/community-arts-initiative-our-family-portrait