Final Project

     Culture is something really unique and important to me. I would like for the final project to portray culture throughout places, items, artifacts and all that can define a culture. I am Polynesian, but we are still differentiated through our names, Tahitians, Samoans, Tongans, Maoris, Hawaiians and so forth. However, with theses differences, the Polynesian culture in general gathers great similarities. I can’t stop to be surprised every time I find similarities in our cultures. We seem so different but at the same time so related.

     I found inspiration not in one photographer only but a group of photographers that call their group Matareva. These people pictured many aspect of culture through portraits, scenes, motions, customs, traditional activities and clothing. They used a variety of style, black and white photos, motions photos, landscapes. There is so much to culture than just what we see form the outside of a person. If we dig deep enough we will find so much resemblance in ourselves.

http://www.matarevaphoto.com/photos/