Photography is innovatively and collectively utilized to create a new narrative challenging the stigma and stereotypes of this indigenous community. This book is a multilingual textural object of beauty and wisdom — a non-linear collective celebration and document of home, belonging, hospitality, reciprocity and the longing to live in communion with the land.

In this conversation, Rehab discusses, among other things:

Personal exploration as motivation and inspiration

Connecting to the protagonists of your stories

Seeing with an empathic eye

Giving voice to the voiceless

Blending practice and process

Calling out visual references

Internalization of the ubiquitous colonial gaze 

Being Modern vs Western

Progressive traditional gender roles 

Symbols & Metaphor

Empowerment & Elevation

Incorporating soundscapes

Fashion history as a cultural, socio-political window