With less than 13 patients left in Kalaupapa on the island of Moloka‘i, island residents are left to contend with the remote area’s uncertain future.
As modern society struggles with the postcolonial influences of the past, Hawai‘i’s statues continue to educate and interrogate their own relevance.
The uncharted tale of history’s only Native Hawaiian whaling captain, culled from an archival abyss of explorer logs, scholarly mentions, and aging newsprint.
On Hawai‘i Island, forests of native naio, māmane, koa, and ‘iliahi are carefully nurtured to replenish the mountainside.
More than a decade ago, Hawai‘i became the first state in the nation to give mothers the right to take home their placentas after childbirth. This has helped revitalize indigenous birthing rights and traditions and enabled holistic maternity practices on the islands.
Through his mastery of the laborious wet-plate collodion process, Hawaiian photographer Kenyatta Kelechi memorializes modern-day Hawai‘i.
A surfboard carver with a haunted past readies his teenage granddaughter to carry on the surfing traditions of their ancestors.