Creator
Josué Rivas (Mexica and Otomi)
Title
Standing Strong.
Coverage
[Amsterdam]:
Publisher
FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo
Date
2018
Description
Josué Rivas’s photobook documents the Water Protectors, who gathered in 2016 to protect the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers from the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline, at the border of the Standing Rock Sioux’s reservation. Rivas and his editor Régina Monfort devised a unique structure of two facing textblocks for the work. Reading becomes an experience of swimming through diptychs of photographs, churning the narrative into a “vortex” that expresses Rivas’s conception of indigenous memory and futurity.
Source
From the Collection of Scott Ellwood