"Mask Series: Carla" (Arthur Renwick, 2006 - 2009) | MyNews | Seneca Students

In his artist’s statement, Renwick describes his portraits as “…more than humorous, a body of images that depicts a culture alive, reactive and very comfortable with challenging and mocking the norm.” The Mask Series comprises close-ups of Native artists, writers and intellectuals who have been asked by the artist to stare into his Hasselblad and reconfigure their faces as masks. “I asked the people I photographed to look into the lens and think about the history of the camera and its relationship to the stereotype of the Indian, then make a facial gesture,” says Arthur Renwick.