J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation With Rehab Eldalil
Description
Photography is innovatively and collectively utilized to create a new narrative challenging the stigma and stereotypes of this indigenous community. This book is a multilingual textural object of beauty and wisdom — a non-linear collective celebration and document of home, belonging, hospitality, reciprocity and the longing to live in communion with the land.
In this conversation, Rehab discusses, among other things:
Personal exploration as motivation and inspiration
Connecting to the protagonists of your stories
Seeing with an empathic eye
Giving voice to the voiceless
Blending practice and process
Calling out visual references
Internalization of the ubiquitous colonial gaze
Being Modern vs Western
Progressive traditional gender roles
Symbols & Metaphor
Empowerment & Elevation
Incorporating soundscapes
Fashion history as a cultural, socio-political window
United States
