Diné in Focus Photography Collective: Artist Talk
Join the Block Museum for a conversation with four Diné (Navajo) photographers and scholars whose work documents contemporary life across the Navajo Nation. Working collectively through Diné in Focus, the panelists challenge longstanding visual stereotypes that portray Indigenous peoples through static or romanticized imagery, instead highlighting the diversity and complexity of Diné experiences, landscapes, and political realities.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill, this panel features Teresa Montoya (University of Chicago), Shayla Blatchford (Anti-Uranium Mapping Project), Andrew Curley (University of Arizona), and Majerle Lister (University of Arizona). Together they will discuss photography as a tool for storytelling, education, and community advocacy, reflecting on the ethics of photography within Diné communities and the role of visual media in supporting environmental health and sovereignty.
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3566661-0
