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“The dispassionate remove common to most modern portraits is all but absent in these images; in its stead is a passionate complicity between artist and sitter that allows each subject to be memorialized with both beauty and grace.”
-Robert Sobieszek, Former Curator of Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Excerpt from Curatorial Statement: Dana Gluckstein’s Portraits
Dedicated to the historical preservation of tribes in transition, this project will capture a fleeting period of history through the iconic photographs of Dana Gluckstein.
Gluckstein’s images depict the collision of traditional, western, and missionary influences that impact many of the last remaining traditional communities in the world. These “Journey Portraits” record the international indigenous struggle to save ancient lands, waters, and traditions – primal responses to a world out of balance. In the end, their fight for preservation reflects the plight of the “civilized” world. States Gluckstein, “The Journey Portraits are my beacon for a planet in distress.”
The project includes museum and traveling exhibitions, public lectures, classroom field trips, along with television, print and radio educational opportunities. A portfolio of prints and a donation are given to each community. The initial Tribes in Transition project will photograph the San Bushmen and their struggle to return to ancestral Kalahari lands against Botswana’s tragic assimilation policy and exploitive diamond mining interests.
