Humanae at Harbor High was inspired by photographer Angelica Dass', "Humanae Project." Humanae at Harbor High is centered around exposing the socio-political context of race and racial power within our societies. The process involves sampling color pixels from the subject's face and using it to create a background for the portrait. Students then analyzed and chose a name for their color, thus empowering them to break away from the simplified codes of "black, white, red, brown, and yellow." Taken out of this context students and staff alike were are able to label their own color, breaking the paradigm of what narrow views of skin color represent. We hope you enjoy Harbor High's step toward, as Mellody Hobson puts it, "being color brave and not color blind."

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