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Projects + Community

Projects that use images to hold memory, place, and community.

Dona Laurita’s projects include grief work, youth storytelling, refugee and immigrant communities, teaching residencies, and public installations that help people tell their stories on their own terms.

Community installation from Dona Laurita's Newcomers project

Selected work

Each project begins with a real person, place, question, or community need.

Waves project image by Dona Laurita

Waves

A photographic series on grief, water, and how loss can live in the body.

The Thin Veil photographic work by Dona Laurita

The Thin Veil

Photographic work made around illness, dying, memory, and the people who remain.

Stories Matter community portrait by Dona Laurita

Stories Matter

Community portrait work supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Newcomers installation by Dona Laurita

Newcomers

Documentary and collaborative visual work with refugee and immigrant youth in Colorado.

Community practice

The work is not only about making images. It is about giving people a careful way to tell their own story.

Dona’s teaching residencies, workshops, exhibitions, youth projects, and community collaborations extend the same practice that shapes her photography: listen first, build trust, make the work together, and leave people with images they recognize as their own.

Images can help a community see what it has carried, survived, and made together.

If you are planning a project, residency, exhibition, or community collaboration, reach out with context.

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