„You don't look Native to me“ is a quote and the title of a body of work (started in 2011), that shows excerpts from the lives of young Native Americans from around Pembroke, Robeson County, North Carolina, where 89% of the city's population identifies as Native American. The town is the tribal seat of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, the largest state-recognized Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River, which means they are federally unrecognized and therefore have no reservation nor any monetary benefits. I‘m tracing their ways of self representation, transformed through history, questions of identity they are confronted with on a daily basis, and their reawakening pride in being Native. I'm particularly interested in youth, because it‘s the period where you find yourself consciously or unconsciously thinking about defining yourself. The work consists of portraits, along with landscapes and places, interiors, still lives and situations. The aesthetic framework that is presented offers clues – sometimes subtle, sometimes loud – for imparting a feeling for their everyday lives. My work looks at an unfamiliar mix of concepts: a Native American tribe whose members are ignored by the outside world, who do not wear their otherness on their physique, but who are firm in their identity. I‘m focusing on an unusual and a somewhat paradoxical kind of otherness, which, while stated (by them) is not immediately apparent. Through photography, video and interviews