The Biracial Project explores the identities and experiences of biracial individuals and their relationship with the term BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color). The composition features six portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid, paired with handwritten reflections from each subject. To create these portraits, I invited ten biracial people to choose a space where they felt most at ease—recognizing that conversations about race, belonging, and identity often carry weight and vulnerability. While photographing them in those spaces, I asked what the term "BIPOC" meant to them.

Although the participants’ identities, cultures, and melanin varied, a shared undercurrent emerged: unease, confusion, and racial impostor syndrome. Many described feeling both included and excluded, embracing solidarity while also confronting the gatekeeping that can exist even within marginalized communities. The handwritten responses, displayed beneath each portrait, capture this tension in their own words.

This project seeks to challenge both the hostility directed toward BIPOC communities and the ways these same communities can enforce boundaries around who “belongs.” The term BIPOC is not a linear concept tied solely to pigment or origin, but an intersectional, lived experience shaped by complexity and contradiction. Claiming such terms can be empowering, yet they can also erase or marginalize mixed experiences. By bringing these voices forward, this project questions narrow notions of American identity and invites a more expansive, nuanced conversation about race, belonging, and solidarity.