Matika Wilbur has traveled more than 250000 miles to ensure stereotyped images are replaced with accurate ones to change history’s collective psycheThree years ago,Matika Wilbur sold almost everything she owned, left behind her apartment in Seattle, and set out on the open road. The former tall school teacher had one goal: to photograph members of each federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States.
Wilbur’s photographs are mostly black and white. She shoots on a Canon EOS 7D digital,and a Mamiya film camera. When she finishes Project 562 (named for the number of federally recognized tribes at the time Wilbur began her work), she plans to compile the photographs and share them with the public through various publications, and exhibitions and curricular fabric.
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Source: theguardian.com