Cannabis Portrait is an independent documentary media outlet. We make portraits of people whose lives intersect with cannabis: video interviews and written Stories. We are not a cannabis channel. We are a journalism project.
Cannabis is the world we enter. The people are what we document.
We are driven by a single impulse: curiosity about why people do what they do. Every subject is a world. Every interview is an act of recognition, of placing a person inside a frame and holding still long enough for them to be truly seen.
Stigma survives on abstraction. It cannot survive a face, a voice, a story told in full, a life held in the frame long enough to be seen whole.
We make two kinds of work: video portraits and written Stories. Both are portraits. Both place a specific person inside the frame and hold them there long enough for something true to emerge.
The video portrait is a structured interview filmed in the subject's environment. Ten to fifteen minutes in the final cut. The interviewer is audible but not visible. The subject is the only person on screen.
The written Story is a piece of literary journalism, reported over time and written with the precision of someone who was in the room. It is not a transcript. It is a separate portrait of the same person, built from observation, from what was not said on camera, from detail.
We do not editorialize. We do not judge. A person seen clearly cannot be easily dismissed. That is the mechanism. That is the work.
Cannabis Portrait does not translate. Each language edition is written by someone who thinks in that language.
For press, partnerships, or subject nominations: one address.
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