James Knudsen: Used Towels (and Souvenir Shops)

…even the pigeons seem tired There is a particular complexity in photographing a place or culture that is not entirely your own, especially one layered with histories and contradictions that exist outside your personal experience. Hawai‘i offers those contradictions for many photographers. How does one photograph a mythologized paradise, tourist destination, land that holds difficult histories? Photographing Hawai‘i

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