The Shinncock Nation is situated on 900 acres in and around the Hamptons. Jeremy Dennis, a Shinnecock photographer, has worked to document the local sites important to Native American history. See more of his photographs:
“Sugar Loaf Hill Site,” 2022.
For another ongoing project, called “Stories,” Dennis stages North American Indigenous myths using the clothing and adornments of Northeastern tribes—those in New York State, like the Long Island tribes and the tribes of the Haudenosaunee, as well as those of the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose territory includes coastal New England. He does so by overlaying images of humans or humanlike creatures on landscape photographs, setting the stories in the places they are told.
For “Rise” and “Nothing Happened Here,” Dennis creates many of the pictures at various art residencies, approaching other artists, staff, or locals, presenting them with a sketch, and asking them to pose. Later, he uses Adobe Photoshop to add arrows and blood, or to populate the images with Indigenous men in traditional clothing—all of them Dennis, wearing a wig—sometimes one or two but as many as a dozen. “I just make tons of selfies of myself,” he said.One image was made at Yaddo, in 2019.
The result is a portrait of two different stares, or gazes, in the contemporary parlance. It’s a landscape portrait in the sense that it reveals what’s invisible in the land—namely that the land was taken, that the story of that theft was erased but not entirely, that the erasure was violent, the violence still resonating for everyone in the community. “They are intense and beautiful and ironic,” Lonnie Graham said, of the “Rise” series.
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