2026 SPE Annual Conference: Catalyst for Exchange
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Imagemaker: Dennis DeHart
Saturday, September 14 - 4:00PM to 4:45PM
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During the past eight years, my photographs and interdisciplinary projects have focused on river systems in the Pacific Northwest, USA, including the Columbia and Snake rivers. I have been employing the framework of bioregionalism (borders based on, for example, natural characteristics of the region, as opposed to political borders) in order to explore what "place" means in a time of globalism. Specifically, I engage with regional western spaces, in order to negotiate issues focused around water rights, land use, human rights, and environmental degradation.
Rivers, and more specifically water rights, are one of the biggest environmental challenges we are facing in the current century. In the Pacific Northwest, there is increasing scrutiny of how dams have impacted the ecology of the region both environmentally and spiritually. Through my projects, I am interested in fostering conversation, dialogue, and pluralistic ways of perceiving dominent narratives focused around power and place.
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