PROJECTS: Blended Nation (portfolio 1)

Amanda
Half Asian (Japanese), Half White, Some Native American (Choctaw)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America

Amanda Half Asian (Japanese), Half White, Some Native American (Choctaw) Photographed in Seattle, Washington Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America

"I most identify with being Japanese- American. Not because I choose to ignore my other racial heritages, but because those other heritages have been for the most part lost in the many generations of my mother’s family."

Ananda, Ari & Rehana
Half Indian (Bombay, Goa), Half White (Jewish Russian-Romanian)
Photographed in New York City
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Phoenix
Five-Eighths Native American (Cherokee, Lakota, Blackfoot), Quarter African American,
One-Eighth French/Caribbean
Photographed in New York City
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Janine, Evan & their children Weston, Austin & Isabella Kelly
Half Asian (Japanese), One-Eighth Asian (Filipino), Three-Eighths White (German, French, Spanish)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Ryan & his mother Tracy
Ryan: Half Black, Half White
Photographed in Queens, New York
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Elizabeth & her father Robert Shigeru Anita, Naomi & their mother Tanya
Cheryl
White, One-Eighth Aztec Indian
Photographed in Mar Vista Hills, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America John
Half Asian (Japanese), Half White (Irish, French-Canadian)
Photographed in his boutique in New York City
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Alexis
Half White (English), Half African (Mchaga from Tanzania)
Photographed at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Diana, Lynne, Julia & Laura
Half Asian (Korean), Half African American (Creole)
Photographed in Alhambra, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Alex
Half White, Quarter Black (Creole), Quarter Asian (Korean)
Photographed in Alhambra, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Brandon
Less than Half Black (includes Creole), Quarter Asian (Korean) and more than a Quarter Native American
Photographed in Alhambra, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Kim
Half Asian (Vietnamese), Half White (French, German, Irish, English)
Photographed on Fishers Island, New York
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Amanda
Half Asian (Japanese), Half White, Some Native American (Choctaw)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Sionna
Half Pacific Islander (Samoan), Half White (German, Irish), Some Native American
Photographed in Tacoma, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Joel, Carey, Carla & Jeremy
Quarter Black, Quarter Native American, Half White
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Lisette
Half African American, Half White (Sicilian, Irish)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Erika
Half White (Irish, English), Half Black (some Native American)
Photographed with her daughter at home in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Darla
Quarter American Indian (Okanagan), Three-Quarters White (Irish, Swedish)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Lulu
Half Asian (Filipina, with Spanish, Chinese, indigenous influence),
Half Black (with White, Cherokee, African influence)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Rudy
Half African American, Half White (Italian)
Photographed in Brooklyn, New York
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America LaTanya
Black, White (Welsh), Asian (Korean)
Photographed in Los Angeles, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Leilani
Half Alaska Native (Haida, Tsimpsian), Half Pacific Islander (Samoan)
Photographed in Seattle, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Mikle & Jon
Mikle: Half African American, Half Asian American (Korean)
Jon: Half African American, Half Syrian
(brothers)
Photographed in New York City
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Deyden & Lhadon 
Half Asian (Tibetan), Half White (Canadian)
Photographed in New York City
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Rachelle & Richard, daughters Angelique & Ashleigh
Daughters: Half African American, Quarter Native American (Cherokee), Quarter White (French)
Rachelle: African American, Native American (Cherokee), White
Richard: White
Photographed in Issaquah, Washington
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Whitney
Father’s parents were Black, Native American and White
Mother is White (French, English, Irish)
Photographed at home in Oakland, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Cristalle
Half Asian (Japanese), Half White (Norwegian, English, Dutch)
Photographed in Queens, New York
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Adia
Half White (English), Half African (Mchaga from Tanzania)
Photographed in Long Beach, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America Jummy