Wayuu Xavante
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28 years old
IOWA CITY, Iowa
United States
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David Hernández Palmar
Photographer and Ethnographic Filmmaker, Maracaibo, Venezuela
David Hernández Palmar is Wayúu and a member of the Iipuana clan from Maracaibo, Venezuela. As a child he was fascinated by photographic images and began taking photos as soon as his seniors allowed him to handle a camera. He is currently working toward degrees from the Escuela de Fotografia Julio Vengoechea and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications from Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin. In addition he completed "Curso de Documentalismo Etnografico" given by Canal Z, an independently produced television channel. Hernández Palmar has participated in numerous photographic exhibits including the Colectiva de Fotógrafos con procesos puristas, Dirección de Cultura de la Universidad del Zulia (2002), Colectiva de Fotógrafos para Aniversario "Escuela de Fotografía Julio Vengoechea" Sala de Artes Visuales "Julio Arraga" Secretaria de Cultura, Maracaibo Zulia (2003), Colectiva "Series Iconocomunicantes" "Escuela de Fotografia Julio Vengochea"( 2004), and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), fotografias sobre la lemna sp, como habitante del lago de Maracaibo, in Japan (2004). In 2005, the South American Art Company that Hernandez Palmar co-founded with his cousin, was one of six winners (of 2000 candidates) of the IDEAS award. IDEAS recognized SAAC's innovative program for translating indigenous art forms into Western fashion. In 2005 he directed and produced the video Sujuitaya Yosuu (The Liberation of Yosuu, 2005). He also works as a freelance photographer and journalist for various magazines and newspapers, including Wayuunaiki and Revista Pax, has collaborated in producing documentary programs for El Noticiero Indigena, the first indigenous television program aired in Venezuela (Vive TV), and has collaborated in independently produced documentaries on Wayúu people (such as Dalia se va de Jepira, Por Fuera Producciones, 2006).
Caimi Waiassé
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Documentary Filmmaker, Matto Grosso, Brasil
A member of the Xavante ethnic group (Ge family) residing in Pimentel Barbosa in the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso, Waiassé has worked as a filmmaker since 1990, when anthropologist Laura Graham introduced the first video camera in his community. In collaboration with the NGO, Videos na aldeeias, he edited his first video in 1996 "Tem que ser Curioso" (trans. "Those that are curious"), 16 minutes. Along with Video nas Aldeias he participated in collaborative projects with other indigenous (Xavante, Surui) filmmakers that resulted in the video Wapte Mnhono, 60 min., 1999. His 2005 collaboration with Brazilian photographers Rosa Gauditano and Jorge Protodi, his colleague from Pimentel Barbosa, led to his latest film, Darini: Iniciação espirtual das crianças Xavante, 46 min. Waiassé has participated and screened his work in various international and indigenous film festivals, including the Festival de Bolivia, ESPANHA, Terres en Vue (Montreal) and at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.
Laura Graham
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa
Laura Graham is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of Iowa. Her researach considers ways that native peoples engage and represent themselves to outside audiences. Graham is particularly interested in notions of cultural consciousness, control of cultural and intellectual property, and image and cultural work as forms of politics and advocacy. In research among the Xavante of Brazil and Wayuu of Venezuela and Colombia she considers how use of video and other forms of new media effects individual lives and subjectivities, dynamics within communities, as well as community relations in broader political arenas.
Much of Graham's work promotes engaged ethnography and participant advocacy. In 1990, she introduced the first video camera to the Xavante community of Pimentel Barbosa and trained the community's first videographer, Caimi Waiassé, whose work and career she continues to accompany. Recently she has promoted exchanges between Xavante and Wayuu, including interactions among individuals concerned with politics of image and representation, and photographers and videomakers. Currently she is coordinating a collaborative indigenous video project that brings together Xavante and Wayúu indigenous filmmakers and focuses on the centrality of dreams, cultural beliefs and practices related to dreaming and dream sharing among Wayúu and Xavante peoples. She is writing a book entitled, Xavante in Public: re-presenting and performing "Indianness" in the public sphere. She is emeritus member and past chair of American Anthropological Association's Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) and currently chairs CfHR's Task Group on Language and Social Justice.
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