Santa Fe, NM — Obscura Gallery will host an exhibition and book signing celebrating In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America, co-authored by Iñupiaq photographer Brian Adams and photographer/author Sarah Stacke. The exhibition is on view from August 14 to September 26, 2026.
On Saturday, August 15, the book signing begins at 3:00 pm. and the artists’ reception will follow from 4:00–6 :00pm at Obscura Gallery with many of the artists present.
The exhibition, curated by Obscura Gallery, Brian Adams, and Sarah Stacke, presents work by 20 contemporary Indigenous American photographers featured in the book who explore themes of sovereignty, identity, land, and community. Historical photographs are displayed alongside the contemporary work to reveal visual lineages spanning generations.
The book presents more than 250 photographs by 80 individuals and collectives, from fine artists to family chroniclers
to yearbook staff to political groups, alongside text exploring the relationships between the images and their makers, bringing to light a canon of Indigenous American photography that has been shaping visual culture since the dawn of the medium.
The photographers in the book span many generations as well as multiple Indigenous societies and nations. They include Jennie Fields Ross Cobb (Cherokee Nation, 1881–1959), the earliest known Native American woman photographer, and Martín Chambi (Quechua, 1891–1973), a celebrated Andean photographer working in early 20th-century Perú, both of whose work is on view in this exhibition, and Kapuleiikealoonalani Flores, a Native Hawaiian born in 2000.
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