The rotunda project that I found most interesting and memorable was Cassy's "We're All Human" project. She displayed it very well by making it interactive. Instead of just putting people's responses under their picture, I like how you had to lift up the photograph to see what they had to say- kind of like you were seeing the inside of them. The idea that "we're all human" is very important for everybody to understand. It doesn't matter your age, race, town, we are all human beings with similar goals and struggles.
Her project reminded me of a story I heard about a man who originally planned to just take 10,000 pictures of New Yorkers and put them on a map of NYC. He started to ask the strangers he was photographing questions about their life and then starting pairing captions with the portraits. Now he has published a book and has a blog, "Humans of New York", where he continues to take pictures and get a glimpse into the life of each stranger.
I think that Cassy's project had an important message that everyone can take away from. We are all human beings and we all have goals and struggles and losses and regrets. You don't know who someone is just by looking at them.
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