Shayna Jackson (Dakota/Cree) as Audrey Hepburn

Digital photograph, inkjet print, luster paper, 22 x 18 in, 1500 USD

Real NDNZ re-take Hollywood © 2016 series “re-takes” and creates classic, iconic portraits of Hollywood movie stars of yesteryear by replacing those past film icons with contemporary Native American actors in Los Angeles. Shayna Jackson, from the Dakota and Cree nations, shares a striking resemblance to the spirit of a classic Audrey Hepburn. The project shows real Indian actors in the elegant clothes and iconic poses of classic Hollywood actors rather than in the buckskin, feathers, and painted faces featured in most Hollywood films of Indians.