Selected images from PBS American Portrait Project.

PBS American Portrait is a national storytelling initiative that aims to inspire a new understanding of what it really means to be American today. It asks people all over the country to contribute stories by responding to one of a number of thought-provoking prompts. Whether it's joy or sorrow, triumph or hardship, family traditions followed for decades or just the chaos of morning breakfast, we want to put together a picture of life as it's really lived, today. It's a chance for people to give a glimpse into their life, and a chance for them to be heard.