About
About Sophie…
Sophie's career path lives at the intersection of strategy, culture, and content creation. Her passion for human-centered design, sustainability and cross-cultural communication motivates her to execute unique solutions to complex issues.
She has traveled to 15 countries, and developed a heightened sense of cultural insights, to create both thoughts, content, and solutions that connect with a global audience. Her traveling and fascination with societal structures from a sociological, and philosophical standpoint motivates her to find the ways design, strategy, and social behavior between cultures can collaborate to improve each other.
Her photography is primarily documentary style with a focus in understanding and highlighting cultural perspectives outside of western narratives in order to uncover elements that could improve our definitions of innovation and progress.
Currently…
Sophie Weber graduated Spring of 2019 from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies with a emphasis in Photography. She is currently working as a strategist for social impact focused clients at 5IVE in Minneapolis.
Currently in her photography she is focusing on a documentary photography series with an focus on documenting and researching the ethnographic evolution of the Yoruba religion, Ifa. Ifa is the West African religion practiced by many of the slaves who were brought to the Americas through the Middle Passage. She has recently returned from Haiti to learn about and photograph the spiritual culture that created Vodou. This project was inspired by her trip to Togo to work with an NGO where she had the opportunity to met the Spirit King of the country, diving her deeper into an existing interest of understanding ancestral, shamanic, and matriarchal, and African spiritualities and religions.
Thoughts…
Any time I begin a political conversation with people, I like to establish that it is okay for them to disagree with me, and that I welcome them to vocalize it if they do. It is very likely we will not have the same analysis of society, and that’s okay. That’s the reality. It’s amazing to hear the nuances of people's thoughts once you’ve established the space that you won’t "cancel" them if they don't agree with everything you do. Regardless of who or what you support, everything can be critiqued and improved. Tell me how you question the movements and ideologies around us. To question something does not make you the "other" and it does not mean you hate those you question, it makes you a curious and critical thinker.
The communal consciousness of the world is at a point of transition. We are fresh into new ways of thinking and existing as humanity. We must be gentle when it comes to what and how we declare something as truth.
I was born into a more left-leaning family, so I am vocal about critiquing the left. I believe we should critique what we know to make it better. The right to critique where you’ve came from should not be reserved for people that have come from conservative upbringings that became liberal. In a culture formed through acts of corruption, we should not think our own movements and ideologies are above criticism.
To create a future society built on openness I believe we must allow for conversations to be built on the diversity of humanities thoughts and lived experiences. There is not one truth. Change is the only constant.