Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives – The New York Times

Native American Photographers Unite to Challenge Inaccurate Narratives

The Natives Photograph organization has highlighted 21 photographers, and offers a database of indigenous photographers in North America.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/lens/native-american-photographers-unite-to-challenge-inaccurate-narratives.html

When Tailyr Irvine was at the Standing Rock prayer camp in South Dakota she noticed that many of the other photographers there — who had come to photograph protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline — were concentrating on people on horseback or those wearing headdresses. While many of the photographers were well meaning, she said, they relied on overly dramatic visual clichés that gave a distorted view of native people like her.