Through an Indigenous Lens

In effort to examine and rebuild relationship with the Land, this course will examine personal, social, and institutional relationships to home, site and land and how they intersect in the work of Indigenous makers. It will address our understanding of the taught and erased histories the land holds and its broader identity in relation to ideas of landscape photography. Centering on ideas of Indigenous relationship, reciprocity, and kinship to the land we will interrogate tangible, centered, and embodied experiences centered in lens-based practice.

We will explore these sites of persistence to examine their function as both practical and aesthetic necessities within our cultural space. We will refocus and reframe our ideas to prioritize the land as kin, and as the support which holds us all. We will experience what it means to witness and record all layers of time, past, present, and future, through the lens.