Oklahoma: A Portrait of America by Libby Bender, Carl Brune and Scott Raffe
Oklahoma : A Portrait of America is a collaborative creative project that is a humble attempt to capture the essence of Oklahoma. We wanted to portray the quirky nobility of the people that have come together to form this very American state. From the native Americans who roamed the Plains with the buffalo to the cowboys who came with the cattle, from the oil barons to the outlaws, the settlers and the Sooners, the proud African Americans who believed this was going to be their Paradise Found, and all the others who came from all directions to make a new life in this territory, all are now Oklahomans.
We were fortunate that some of them shared themselves with us. The three of us traveled from corner to corner for two years, shooting the people and the places that we found. We always tried to honor the moment, and the people who were in it.





