2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptations
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Imagemaker: Baxter Bond
Friday, September 13 - 2:00PM to 2:45PM
Gruening 306
There are very few indigenous photographers. There are even fewer Native landscape photographers. When one does a search for "landscape photographers" many of the names are those of white men, such as Ansel Adams, Michael Kenna, and more recently, Thomas Heaton and Chris Burkard. There is a distinct lack of diversity in the landscape of landscape photography.
Although there is a strong sense of beauty and even environmentalism in the work of all of the aforementioned photographers, none of them relied solely on the land in the physical sense, to survive. Indigenous people throughout the world are raised by the land, from food to water to worldview, and share a connection to it, second to none. In my session, I will discuss my relationship to the land, given my upbringing as a Yup'ik person, and how this relationship expresses itself in my photographs.
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