photo: Tony Smart Photography
“I create digital video imagery that confronts systems of oppression and encourages healing. The provoking documentary videos challenge our everyday normative actions in order to ignite necessary changes in our society that elevate our human conditions.”
artist: Habib Rahman, graphics: Lawrence Rahman
Laura Holman Rahman is a social activist, independent documentary filmmaker, and public speaker who challenges normative behaviors that are perpetuated through media images. She is a Spelman College graduate whose research in the field of sociology, anthropology and comparative women’s studies addresses the necessity to bring women from the margins to central focus while demonstrating balanced female-male relationships. She creates film work that engages, teaches, ignites and inspires audiences to participate in their lives as agents for personal and communal change.
She is indomitably self-charged with making the invisible SEEN by providing living films that rouse audiences with the voices of people who are often silenced.
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker