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Matika Wilbur

Matika Wilbur (born 1984), is a Tulalip photographer and educator from Washington state. A citizen of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington and a Swinomish descendent, she is best known for her photography project, Project 562, and co-hosting the All My Relations podcast.

Matika Lorraine Wilbur was born in 1984, to a Tulalip father and a Swinomish mother. She is a citizen the Tulalip and a descendant of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. Wilbur grew up predominantly on the Swinomish reservation in a family of commercial fishermen. She traveled to La Conner, Washington to attend high school. She graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography with a degree in advertising.

Her Native name is Tsa-Tsiq, meaning "She Who Teaches."

Before beginning her photography career, Wilbur worked as a fashion photographer in Los Angeles, but found the work unfulfilling. She also worked as a teacher at Tulalip Heritage High School.

Wilbur's three initial photographic projects include We Are One People, a photograph collection of Coast Salish elders; We Emerge, a photograph collection of Native people in contemporary settings, and Save the Indian and Kill the Man, a collection of Native youth expressing their identities. Her other work includes "iHuman", presenting images interwoven with cedar bark.

"All Alone" is a 2012 project that addresses the cultural assimilation of Native Americans between the 1880–1980.

"iHuman" is a 2013 cultural project that represents the cultural dualism that Native Americans live upon.

The artist specializes in hand-tinted, black-and-white silver gelatin prints.

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