APC JUNE MEETING (IN PERSON!) AGM AND FEATURING NADYA KWANDIBENS. JUNE 20TH, 2023.
Nadya Kwandibens, Red Works Photography
Nadya Kwandibens is Anishinaabe from the Animakee Wa Zhing #37 First Nation in northwestern Ontario. She is an award winning portrait and events photographer, a Canon Ambassador, and has travelled extensively across Canada for over 14 years. In 2008 she founded Red Works Photography. Red Works is a dynamic photography company empowering contemporary Indigenous lifestyles and cultures through photographic essays, features, and portraits. Red Works specializes in natural light portraiture and headshots sessions plus event and concert photography. Red Works also provides image licensing, workshops, presentations and print products and has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Canada and United States.
Her most recent project, The Red Chair Sessions, is an open-call series that places importance on reclamation of Indigenous spaces / places and languages. She is also currently in the research and development phase for a new multimedia series titled The Kitchen Table Talks that will bring together Indigenous women and LGBTQ2S+ to round-table perspectives on matrilineal leadership and nationhood with a focus on addressing urgent local and regional Indigenous matters.
Nadya is an Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award laureate. Jurors stated, “Nadya is an intrepid, ground-breaking and influential artist. She has brought an Indigenous voice to portrait photography that recontextualizes images and shows us our true selves.”
In addition to commissioned works, Nadya delivers empowering photography workshops and presentations for youth, universities, and various community groups. She currently resides in Tkarón:to on Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Mississauga of the Credit River & Dish With One Spoon Territory.
Socials:
Instagram: @_anishinaabekwe & @_redworks
Facebook: @mazinaakizigewikwe & @redworksphotography
Twitter: @_anishinaabekwe & @_redworks
This event will be held at the Rotary Park Pavilion in Ajax
Interested in joining the Ajax Photography Club? Membership information is available on our website.