For her project "Signs of Your
Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against
the former residential schools they once attended in Saskatchewan. In
2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school
system, which a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide" last
year. "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured
against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was
away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about
family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back
then. I was a number."
When Daniella Zalcman visited Canada for the first time in 2014, she was shocked by the poverty and desperation she witnessed in parts of Saskatchewan's indigenous community.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/30/living/cnnphotos-canada-residential-schools-identity/
When Daniella Zalcman visited Canada for the first time in 2014, she was shocked by the poverty and desperation she witnessed in parts of Saskatchewan's indigenous community.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/30/living/cnnphotos-canada-residential-schools-identity/