PROJECTS: Blended Nation (portfolio 1)

Darla
Quarter American Indian (Okanagan), Three-Quarters White (Irish, Swedish)
Photographed 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

"Everyone, including myself, has this ingrained view that you can only be one or the other. I’m not White enough that they don’t have to ask “what are you?” and I’m not Indian enough that they know without asking. It makes me feel a little disconnected from the White side of me, but even more so from the Indian side of me."

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