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Jaida Grey Eagle
Jaida Grey Eagle
Jaida Grey Eagle
Jaida Grey Eagle

As a way to reground my work both figuratively and creatively, I’ve been experimenting with cyanotypes. As an Indigenous woman, I often contemplate my roots to the land I live upon—the Oceti Sakowin/Dakota and Anishinaabe land—and the ways in which that informs my work. With this project, the plant and flower silhouettes are exposed into the overall composition—to define the space in which we all occupy and as a reminder of where we are. The negative space that the plants define within the compositions remind us of the Indigenous land we stand upon while standing up.

Artist Bios

  • Jaida Grey Eagle

    Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota artist with a focus on photojournalism, producing, beadwork, and writing based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She researches Indigenous photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as an ongoing former Curatorial Fellow and is a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal covering communities of color within Minnesota.

Organizations

  • Indigenous Photograph

    Indigenous Photograph

    Indigenous Photograph is a space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and spaces. Their mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities, and to reflect on how we tell these stories.

    Indigenous Photograph’s global database is available to photo editors, creative directors, and those who routinely hire photographers. The electronic database of their members includes detailed information regarding geographical areas of expertise, languages spoken, and contact information.

Rooted

 archive : 2021

Featuring: Jaida Grey Eagle

Presented by: Indigenous Photograph
  • Indigenous Photograph

Supported by:

  • Photoville
  • Leica Camera

Locations

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Brooklyn, NY 11201

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