WHO IS MIAMI
Storytelling For Change
 
Nov 24, 2023 - Dec 14, 2023
BRIGHTLINE & BUS STOPS

On November 20, 2023, the transit exhibition, Who Is Miami: Storytelling for Change, debuted at the Brightline Miami Station, and it also covered over 80 digital rotating bus stop panels located in Brickell, Downtown, Edgewater, Eastside, Midtown, Coral Gables, The Roads and Riverside.

 

“Who Is Miami is our passionately curated experience that showcases Miami through the visual and written stories of people who – whether by nature or by choice – are outside of our daily agendas and mainstream news. They all tirelessly, and often invisibly, work to make this city more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and just. They need to be recognized,” says Yulia Strokova, Founder and Publisher of Impact.Edition.

 

The community-wide program is made in collaboration with Good Miami Project, an organization that provides pro bono photoshoots for Miami-based nonprofits. This year, its founder Greg Clark, a social and environmental photographer, has been selected as a winner of the prestigious Ellies Awards celebrating visual artists and their community impact.

 

"I am thrilled and grateful to collaborate with Impact.Edition on major outdoor storytelling campaigns, specifically during Art Basel season," says Greg. "Through displaying photographs  in public spaces featuring our fellow community members who give back, I hope we can absorb the diverse voices of these local champions and use their stories to help bridge divisions and recognize our shared humanity."

 

In 2022, in collaboration with Greg Clark and Good Miami Project, Impact.Edition launched the first iteration of Who Is Miami: Storytelling for Change at the Main Library in Downtown Miami. They also expanded the experience into a pilot transit exhibition framed in bus stop shelters across different Miami neighborhoods to show how all individuals who live here or come enjoy the beauty of Miami can contribute to preserving natural resources and achieving social and environmental justice.

 

This year, Good Miami Project and Impact.Edition presented a reprise of the storytelling exhibition, Who Is Miami, at the Green Library, Florida International University; the Social Impact Lab at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL; and the independent bookstore Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL.

 

These storytelling programs are largely supported by the Green Family Foundation and the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Department.

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