Seeing the Beauty in Dark Places with @stacykranitz and...

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Seeing the Beauty in Dark Places with @stacykranitz and #MyStory

#MyStory is a series that spotlights inspiring women in the Instagram community. Join the conversation by sharing your own story. To explore more of Stacy’s photography, check out @stacykranitz on Instagram.

“#MyStory is about sidestepping the classic hero’s narrative that omits the darker, shadowy parts of our own history.” —Stacy Kranitz (@stacykranitz), Time magazine’s Instagram Photographer of the Year

“We should celebrate our lives for what they are: a complicated negotiation between good and bad, darkness and light. I’m not a person that sees the world as a beautiful, Utopian place. It’s not about overcoming great obstacles to be wonderful people; that’s not the narrative that I choose to participate in.

My job is to create genuine encounters so things unfurl and open up on both ends — for me and for the subject. When I go to communities and build relationships with people, they’re the same as relationships I build with fellow artists. I accept people for who they are, for their deep flaws, for the darkness that surrounds them, and allow that to be completely OK.”

by via Instagram Blog