The Self-Portrait Project (SPP) was founded with social justice ideals as its roots and a love of photography as its driving force. We are culturally curious, socially conscious, and harnessing the communicative power of photography. 

The project was created by National Geographic Traveler award-winning photographer Andy Lin, who was a co-founder and artistic director for Other Worlds, a multi-media non-profit which sought to document and disseminate cases of living, thriving alternative economies around the world.

The photographic method underlying SPP is influenced by the belief ingrained in many of the social movements Andy documented that decisions are best made by those directly affected by them, or, said another way, “nothing about us without us”.