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DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition has been touring European and U.S. museums since 2011. The 60 black and white portraits of Indigenous Peoples pay homage to these imperiled cultures signaling our collective interdependence and fragility. The exhibition provides urgency and a contemporary focus to the worldwide movement against racial injustice in which DIGNITY continues to play an important part.  

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Nobel Laureate Archbishop Tutu, in the exhibition wall text states, “The Indigenous Peoples of the world have a gift to give that the world needs desperately, this reminder that we are made for harmony, for interdependence. If we are ever truly to prosper, it will be only together.”

The DIGNITY exhibition began its U.S. tour at Boston University Art Gallery in January 2015 following three years of a European tour. Thematically the exhibition allows for diverse cultural events, speakers, and class field trips. U.S. exhibition bookings are now being confirmed through 2020.

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Robert S. Sobieszek, the late renowned Curator of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, describes Gluckstein’s work, “The portraits taken by Dana Gluckstein evidence a clear attempt to reinvest portraiture with that something that was lost some time ago. And that something is nothing less than the desire, or the requirement, to express the character and moral quality of the sitter in such a way that far more than likeness is suggested if not exactly revealed… Gluckstein bestows upon her sitters a sense of stilled dignity…The dispassionate remove common to most modern portraits is all but absent in these images; in its stead is a passionate complicity between artist and sitter that allows each subject to be memorialized with both beauty and grace.” 

Press has included Boston Globe, CNN, ELLE, Huffington Post, L'EPRESSO REPUBLICA Italy, L'ILLUSTRÉ, MORE, The New York Times Book Review, SÜEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, VANITY FAIR, VOGUE Italy, 24HEURES, to name a few.(International Press)