Style portrait photography Website matikawilbur.com | Movement Native photography Alma mater Brooks Institute | |
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Born April 28, 1984 (age 32) ( 1984-04-28 ) Nationality American (Swinomish/Tulalip) | ||
Surviving disappearance re imagining humanizing native peoples matika wilbur at tedxseattle
Matika L. Wilbur is a Swinomish/Tulalip award-winning photographer from Washington. She is currently photographing members of all 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States as part of her Project 562. She has exhibited in Canada, the United States, France, and Russia.
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- Surviving disappearance re imagining humanizing native peoples matika wilbur at tedxseattle
- Current conversations matika wilbur
- Life
- Art career
- Project 562
- Selected exhibitions
- References
Current conversations matika wilbur
Life
Wilbur was born on April 28, 1984. She grew up in La Conner, Washington and graduated from La Conner High School. She received her bachelor's degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography in 2006. Wilbur teaches at Tulalip Heritage High School. Her work has appeared at the Seattle Art Museum.
Art career
Wilbur's three initial photographic projects include We Are One People, a photograph collection of Coast Salish elders; We Emerge, a photograph collection of Native people in contemporary settings, and Save the Indian and Kill the Man, a collection of Native youth expressing their identities. Her other work includes "iHuman", presenting images interwoven with cedar bark.
The artist specializes in hand-tinted, black-and-white silver gelatin prints. She plans on publishing a book about her photography.
Project 562
Project 562 is Wilbur's fourth major project to document contemporary Indigenous peoples. She began traveling throughout the US in November 2012 with the goal of photographing members all US tribes on their tribal lands. She has traveled 250,000 miles documenting indigenous people. She raised over $35,000 for her expenses in a Kickstarter campaign.
Selected exhibitions
