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Pamela J. Peters

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Pamela J. Peters

Navajo Multimedia Documentarian
Pamela J. Peters

Pamela J. Peters is a Diné multimedia documentarian from the Navajo Reservation where she was born and raised. Her first clan is Tachii’nii (Red Running into the Water clan), which she uses to identify her photography. Pamela’s work captures not only still images documenting people, cultures, and environments; she also incorporates storytelling with video digital capturing that is completed with a unique and distinctive creative style. Her creative lens explores the history and identity of her participants, which she calls Indigenous Realism, which often places a nostalgic aesthetic in her photographic images. She incorporates black & white photography to express her photography series: Legacy of Exiled NDNZ which explores the 1950s Indian Relocation program; and Real NDNZ Re-Take Hollywood, which evocates studio-style portraits of Hollywood glamour of the 1940s and 1950s. Her photography has recently been featured at the J. Paul Getty and her photo is part of a collection at the Triton Contemporary Museum, Field Museum, University of Oregon archival dept, and the Eiteljorg Museum. Her work stems from what she has witnessed and can identify as a Navajo living in the city - the social impact of the negative, inaccurate, insulting images of stereotypical portrayal of American Indians still seen in mass media. As a filmmaker, she has recently completed a short film entitled "Indian Alley" and continues to generate multiple platforms to share the contemporary native narrative. Through her work, she has taken on the new endeavor of curating poetry events throughout Los Angeles.