Homolovi
Hopi Social Dances
HOMOLOVI - HOPI SOCIAL DANCES
I photographed the Hopi Social Dance Group - Homolovi on the 5th & 6th of July, 2008. I had this unique opportunity, when the Hopi Social Dance Group - Homolovi was scheduled to perform on Heritage Square during the Fourth of July Weekend. I invited them to used the Flagstaff Photography Center to change into their traditional clothes. I set up a studio space and made these photos prior to and after their performances. Their dances in the square worked - because they brought needed rain.
John Running has been photographing American Indians throughout his forty year career as a freelance photographer. His book “Honor Dance” celebrates his work with Native Americans. National Geographic Photographer, William Albert Allard wrote about him in the preface to Honor Dance.
"Running is perhaps best known for his photographs of Indians, but instead of considering himself a specialist, he considers himself to be simply a photographer of people, this is an important distinction. The kind of approach this photographer takes in his work is transferable to any part of the world, to any society. He is never just photographing the trappings of religious beliefs or the costumes of ideology; he is always photographing human beings."
I photographed the Hopi Social Dance Group - Homolovi on the 5th & 6th of July, 2008. I had this unique opportunity, when the Hopi Social Dance Group - Homolovi was scheduled to perform on Heritage Square during the Fourth of July Weekend. I invited them to used the Flagstaff Photography Center to change into their traditional clothes. I set up a studio space and made these photos prior to and after their performances. Their dances in the square worked - because they brought needed rain.
John Running has been photographing American Indians throughout his forty year career as a freelance photographer. His book “Honor Dance” celebrates his work with Native Americans. National Geographic Photographer, William Albert Allard wrote about him in the preface to Honor Dance.
"Running is perhaps best known for his photographs of Indians, but instead of considering himself a specialist, he considers himself to be simply a photographer of people, this is an important distinction. The kind of approach this photographer takes in his work is transferable to any part of the world, to any society. He is never just photographing the trappings of religious beliefs or the costumes of ideology; he is always photographing human beings."
William Albert Allard
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