Spirit Hawk Eye

Celebrating contemporary Native American culture, ‘Spirit Hawk Eye’ is a series of portraits by photographer Heidi Laughton that highlight the present-day customs of the Native peoples of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. These stunning images honour the spiritual, artistic, and enduring heritage of diverse Native American tribal communities. ‘Spirit Hawk Eye’ is a project celebrating contemporary Native American Indian culture through photographic portraiture using medium and large format film cameras (no digital). Revealing aspects of present-day Native cultural practices and lifestyles, these arresting black-and-white images portray contemporary Native peoples – with a focus on the Southwest – including Navajo, Chumash, Paiute, Zuni, Hopi, Comanche, Iowa, and Apache. Each portrait is displayed with personal anecdotes of each individual, explaining the traditions and ways of life that are important to them. Launched in 2013 at the Talisman Art Gallery in Bergamot Arts Center, Santa Monica, ‘Spirit Hawk Eye’ celebrates the colourful, reverent, spiritual, artistic, and enduring elements of tribal communities.

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Website
http://americanmuseum.org/about-the-museum/current-exhibitions/spirit-hawk-eye/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//sw000107?id=EVENT509695