Quiet dignity
Powerful images show strength of Indigenous women
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Using an 125-year-old large format camera and the wet-plate processing technique that dates back to the 1850s, Winnipeg photographer Jon Adaskin has created a powerful exhibit featuring indigenous women.
The exhibit — Dignity: The Strength of Indigenous Women — is part of Winnipeg’s annual Flash photographic festival, which runs through the month of October. Adaskin’s portraits are on display at The Haberdashery, located at 84 Albert St.
Adaskin’s goal:
“Many indigenous women are made to confront and challenge systemic forms of oppression and violence that other, non-indigenous women don’t. The continued devaluing of indigenous women (and all indigenous peoples) in Canada must end. This is my way of capturing the dignity and enduring strength indigenous women have — and have had, all along.”
The technique:
“The process of wet-plate collodion dates back to the origins of photography. It shows a very real side to people that can’t be duplicated digitally. In digital photography (and with film as well) you can get a very quick shutter speed, which allows for the ‘two-second fake smile.’ With wet plate, it’s long exposures, sometimes up to 30 seconds. There’s no smiling at all, nothing to hide behind. The pain, anger and loss these women have experienced is very present in the images. I really wanted to create images you can’t look away from.”
