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Spotlight Photographer:

Jessi DeVera

Honolulu, HI

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This is a photo within a diptych that is made from film processes. The rephotographed (all film processes) collage represents the current thoughts and nature we face, here in Hawaii.

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This is a photo within a diptych that is made from film processes, paper, drawings and Hawaiian hymn books (post colonization). The rephotographed (all film processes) collage represents the current thoughts and nature we face, here in Hawaii.

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Honolulu has been a target for vast development throughout history and even recently is in the process of heavy construction. Within this construction, there is a deconstruction of natural resources and natural culture. Within the physical construction, there are cultural, urbanizing and consumeristic constructions. This is Kapali. She is a beautiful native Hawaiian woman who is experiencing these very things.

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Images in REfelction. Kapali.

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