For the better part of last Wednesday, the Foley Square StoryBooth hosted conversations between young photographers from South Dakota’s Oglala-Lakota Tribe, Arizona’s Navajo Nation, Brattleboro, Vermont and New York City. They were all participants in Exposures, a cross-cultural exchange program founded in 2003. The Vermont-based program totes large format cameras and Polaroid film to Pine Ridge’s South Dakota reservation, Arizona and New York, allowing the old fashioned look of the cameras to draw subjects in and the instant photographs it provides to serve as a souvenir for the road. The youth learn a new way of looking at their communities, through intense local workshops, and at each other, thanks to a traveling component for select youth, which includes time in Pine Ridge, New York and Vermont.
