Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he thought of as ‘a dying race’,” Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos “signs of modernity” such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped in time,…

Curtis saw his mission as “documenting what he thought of as ‘a dying race’,” Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos “signs of modernity” such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped in time,…