What Makes Edgar Kanayko More Than a Photographer
Edgar Kanayko Xakriabá, is a photographer and storyteller who belongs to the Indigenous peoples of Xakriabá State of Minas Gerais.
Edgar's work is featured in PWB's Virtual Gallery 'Original 'Perspectives' for the 2020 CONTACT Photography Festival.
By Edgar Kanayko Xakriabá as featured in the Original Perspectives Exhibit
“Ethnophotography: "a means of recording the aspect of culture - the life of a people."
I use ethnophotography to record the part of the life of the Xakriabá people to which I belong. As well as the possibility of registering other Indigenous peoples of Brazil, since their experiences in the villages: rituals, festivals, songs, dances, especially the Indigenous movement, which are spaces in which Indigenous peoples struggle against the setbacks that we are experiencing while pervading policies, extermination of the Brazilian Government.”
By Edgar Kanayko Xakriabá as featured in the Original Perspectives Exhibit
“At first seen as a threat, the use of Audiovisual is now a weapon of struggle and resistance, an important ally of indigenous peoples. I propose with this exhibition, an approach between the outside world and the inside, with a properly Indigenous look.”
By Edgar Kanayko Xakriabá as featured in the Original Perspectives Exhibit
Thank you Edgar for continuing to express the need to respect past traditions and struggles, and a desire to inspire future generations of Indigenous artists to showcase their own unique perspectives
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