Gallery I

 

Honor Song

Oliver Plumley, 16, Comanche/ Otoe, being honored at a Gourd dance sponsored by his parents. Frontier School, Red Rock, OK 1997.

   The power of interpretive documentary photography lies in the ambiguous space between objective reality and subjective vision, description and emotion, observation and participation, surface image and personal truth.

 

 Otoe/Pawnee Girl.

Cassandra Arkeketa, 16 year old student at Frontier School contemplates her future.
Red Rock, OK 1997

 

   I focus on the essence of the moment and continually asked what are the essential elements that say what needs to be said.

 

 

 

 

 

 Birthday Meeting

Roberta McClellan and Welana Fields stand outside the tipi where Roberta's 16th birthday meeting was just held.
Pawnee, OK 1995

 

 

 Photography is my point of view, storytelling with images is my statement.

 

 

 

 


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