An Indian from India
As an immigrant, I am often questioned about where I am “really
from.” When I say that I am Indian, I often have to clarify that
I am an Indian from India. It seems strange that all this
confusion started because Christopher Columbus thought he had found the
Indies and called the native people of America collectively as Indians.
In this portfolio, I look at the other “Indian.” I play on my own
“otherness,” using photographs of Native Americans from the Nineteenth
Century and early Twentieth Century that perpetuated and reinforced
stereotypes. I find similarities in how Nineteenth and early Twentieth
century photographers of Native Americans looked at what they called
the primitive natives, similar to the colonial gaze of the Nineteenth
century British photographers working in India.
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