JONESBORO — Thurgood Marshall Elementary School recently hosted an “Embrace Your Crown” event that featured Atlanta-based husband and wife photographers Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of Creative Soul Photography.
The Bethencourts are New York Times bestselling authors and have been featured on CNN, CBS, and the Steve Harvey Show.
To support the release of their latest work, “Crowned,” they created the Embrace Your Crown event to help increase self-awareness and celebrate the uniqueness of young students through the eye of a camera lens.
The Bethencourts believe that everyone deserves to be truly seen, so they go beyond just capturing beautiful snapshots. They create thought-provoking imagery showcasing kids across the African diaspora by bringing to life past, present, and future visions of Black culture to create a society where all kids are created equally and feel empowered to move in the world as their true authentic selves.
“It is so important for students to embrace reading and engage with diverse characters as well as characters that they can identify with,” said Anthony W. Smith, superintendent/CEO of schools. “We are very appreciative of Mr. and Mrs. Bethencourt for visiting our district to support our work of Building a Better Tomorrow, Today through literacy, art, and cultural diversity.”
The Bethencourts began by presenting a series of their portrait works.
They showed images of other young scholars being photographed as a Mathematic African King, a Neuroscience Expert, a Medieval Aviation Pilot, the 2023 version of Annie, a modern-day Batboy, an Underwater Mermaid, and a Lion Princess.
As shared by the guests, one of their greatest accomplishments thus far has been to partner with Disney and have their Disney Princess doll photo collection turned into a real-live Disney Princess doll collection that is…
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