A Part of Me Wants to Be All of Me was a five-session Restorative Photography and Writing Workshop at Yaphank Correctional Facility, where twenty participants in Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr.’s Addiction Treatment Program spent five weeks learning portrait photography, writing reflective pieces about their inner lives, and building collages that captured where they’ve been, where they are, and where they hope to go. Guided by a parts-based framework — the idea that we carry many inner voices, each with its own history and wisdom — participants photographed one another, wrote about the parts of themselves they protect, hide, and hope to reclaim, and assembled those images and words into the mood boards you see here. The result was an exhibit at the Yaphank Correctional Facility, equal parts art show and self-portrait: twenty people, in the middle of their story, who chose to look at themselves honestly and decided what they saw was worth sharing.

This program was led by CSM Collective, a new partnership that brings more than credentials to the room: photojournalist and workshop leader Saskia Keeley, fine art photographer and creative director Maura Sullivan, author Camille Sweeney.