THE NEXT INSTALMENT OF SHOOTS FROM UOFT’S TRUTH & RECONCILIATION REPORT IS FROM THEIR POW WOW!
Although this wasn’t our first time attending a pow wow, it was certainly our first time photographing one, and what an experience it was! Local vendors and much of the community (from near and far) all come together for pow wows; they’re an opportunity for everyone to sing, dance, socialize, and honour the Indigenous culture. With that, it was the perfect feature to include in the University of Toronto’s TRC report so we went to the stadium to shoot one afternoon!
While quite beautiful there are a few considerations to keep in mind when shooting a pow wow; photo and video are prohibited during certain parts of the event (prayers, flag songs), eagle feathers are of the utmost importance (you can read about that here), and it’s important to ask for permission before photographing someone.
For this event and shooting for the report specifically we needed model releases for faces so we tried our best to shooting close crops, details, or (to the opposite end) from afar.
