Wilbur’s 2012 project was started with 562 federally-recognized Native American tribes. Now, There are 574.
“We’re always redrafting the language to describe this project,”Insider heard from Wilbur in 2016.
The Zone System provides more dynamic range for the images.
“I figured that that was sort of irresponsible when I started this project, to travel all over the country and not show the landscape,”Wilbur stated.
“Sometimes I’ll be in the Grand Canyon and I’d rather take somebody’s picture at Havasupai Falls because it’s magnificent and there’s this incredible blue-green water coming out of the ground … and they want to be photographed on their front porch because they love where they live,”She said. “I’ll do what they want to do because people should be represented in a way that is important to them, especially in Indian Country.”
The above portrait shows Wilbur photographing three members of Tulalip’s tribe: Darkfeather and Bibiana.
Jaclyn Roessel, Dine’ (Navajo Nation), posed for Wilbur’s portrait.
Wilbur co-hosts the podcast. All My RelationsAdrienne Keene, Desi Small-Rodriguez and Adrienne discuss their relationship to land, ancestors and other Native peoples in this video.