Mni Wiconi, Honoring the Water Protectors by John Willis

Oct 13, 2019 - Nov 6, 2019 | Themes: Photo Journalism

John Willis brings us right onto the North Dakota reservation with his select seeing and passion to share the truth.

"I supported the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies with the indigenous led movement resisting placing the Dakota Access Pipeline under the Missouri River, their water source."_John Willis

Exhibit Receptions: Sundays, 1-5 pm, October 20, 27; November 3

There will be Gallery Conversations, Sundays, 3:00 pm, October 20, 27; November 3

"Photography provides me with a visual tool for exploration and communication. The ways we communicate with each other and the world around us have always been major points of interest and contention throughout my life (in addition to photography I have studied psychology and education). Because I choose to represent my observations about the world in images rather than in written essays, I have used photography in a variety of ways. Not only do I make my own images, but I help others make their own as well. I have spent much of my life teaching photography in diverse settings. I have taught all age groups, from first-graders to nursing-home residents. I am currently the full-time photography professor at Marlboro College, and I am the co-founder of The In-Sight Photography Project, and its Exposures Cross Cultural Youth Program, a non-profit program that teaches photography to adolescents regardless of their ability to pay."
-John Willis

John Willis is publishing a new book to be released in November, 2019: Mni Wiconi, Water is Life, Honoring the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and Everywhere in the Ongoing Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty

Your life will change when you clck on this link to view his Curriculum Vitae.