In Light and Shadow: Indigenous Photographers Tell Their Stories

0:00Here's more Anchorage news from March 1st. A new book called In Light and Shadow offers a fresh look at photographic history from Indigenous America. Written by a new-piac photographer Brian Adams from Anchorage and Sarah Stockie from New York, it spans from the 1860s onward. The 294-page volume, out now from Black Dog and Leventhal for $40, builds on their digital library project to Spotlight. Indigenous photographers telling their own stories. These images capture everyday life with real intimacy, focusing on families, women, children, and familiar settings. Unlike outsiders like Edward Curtis, who stays romantic scenes, this work shows open faces and true continuity of cultures. It highlights ancestral memory, healing, and kinship through sharp observations. Take Benjamin Alfred Haudain from Met Lakotla, a self-taught photographer who moved north in 1887, with Simpson and people. He resisted assimilation for decades, and his glass plate negatives were saved from a dump

1:02in 2003. Efforts continue to reunite his photos with families from scattered archives. Other standouts include Tillingett Lewis-Shogridge, who documented his people for the Penn Museum from 1912 to 1932, and Martha, Maglashon Monson, from the Aleutians, whose family shots cover nearly a century up to the 1970s. William Lackie-Paul Jr. captured civil rights issues while Henry Samuel Kaiser Jr. photographed life at a sanatorium in the 1950s, before becoming a teacher and advocate. Brian Adams wraps it up with his own modern portraits from 20 villages, like Inuit Elders with Frozen Well Blubber. The book inspires digging into family albums for hidden cultural gems, making it a must for photography fans and those into indigenous histories. The Daily News Now is grateful to our sponsor for today's episode, Comfort, You Can Here, Sound You Can Relax Into, S-O-L-I-SoliPillo.com