creative-cap:In 1973, 23-year old George Legrady was invited by the Cree indigenous communities to p
creative-cap:In 1973, 23-year old George Legrady was invited by the Cree indigenous communities to photograph their way of life. The Cree people were about to enter negotiations to dispute a Hydroelectric dam project that would flood land they had lived on for millennia. Recently, George received funding to digitally archive these photographs. Looking at them, we noticed a striking similarity between that moment in 1973 and the one we are living in now, as hundreds of First Nations tribes have convened to protest the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota. Wanting to learn more, we asked George to select a few images and share his experience. He’ll be taking over our Tumblr for the next few days. Here’s George: “Visiting the James Bay Cree was a momentous event in my life. In the summer of 1973, my brother Miklos and I and two other photographers received invitations to go north and live with the Cree to document their everyday lives. Eventually, we would return to urban centers with visual documentation that depicted the communities and show how the dam project would affect their way of life. Here is a photo of me on the bed in an Inuit cabin.”Read the full story on our blog. -- source link