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COMPLETED PROJECTS

The Fight For Healthy Food In Canada's North

Patrick Kane • Northwest Territories & Nunavut • 2021

Food is more than nourishment. In many northern Indigenous communities, it is closely tied to culture, identity, and relationships with the land.

Patrick Kane documented how food insecurity is affecting communities across Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, exploring the barriers to accessing country food alongside the community-led initiatives working to strengthen local food systems through photography and visual storytelling.

Jessica Houston • Nunavut & Northwest Passage • 2022

Arctic exploration is often told through the journeys of famous men, yet many of its most important stories belong to women.

Through the all-female expedition Beyond Her Horizons, Jessica Houston documented the experiences of Inuit and non-Indigenous women whose knowledge, leadership, and resilience have shaped Arctic exploration for generations.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

'Two-Eyed Seeing': Using LiDAR To Document And Illustrate 11,000 Years Of Environmental And Cultural History In The Georgian Bay

Kirsten Kennedy • Ontario • 2023

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Some of Georgian Bay's oldest stories are hidden beneath the forest canopy. Combining LiDAR technology with Indigenous knowledge through the principle of Two-Eyed Seeing,

Kirsten Kennedy is revealing more than 11,000 years of environmental and cultural history hidden beneath the forests of Georgian Bay.

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Beyond Her Horizons

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

Kinauniqput Ammalu Arvangniaqtitt: Exploring Inuit Identity And The Influence Of British Whalers

Shelly Elverum • Nunavut • 2021

Why do Scottish fiddle tunes, square dancing, and bannock remain part of Inuit life today?

Working with Inuit youth through the Ikaarvik program, Shelly Elverum explored the historical relationships between Inuit communities and Scottish whalers, uncovering a story of cultural exchange, friendship, and shared history that continues to shape Inuit identity.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Dinosaurs Of The Spatsizi Plateau

Victoria Arbour • British Columbia • 2023

Dinosaur fossils are rarely associated with the mountains of British Columbia, yet the remote Spatsizi Plateau is revealing an unexpected record of ancient life.

Victoria Arbour led an expedition to recover fossils from this little-studied landscape, uncovering new evidence of ecosystems that thrived millions of years before the dinosaurs' extinction.

Amy Romer • Canada • 2024

As landscapes change, many people are also experiencing a profound sense of loss.

Beyond Ecological Grief is a 6-series podcast that follows scientists, Indigenous knowledge holders, firefighters, fishers, and others as they navigate the emotional impacts of environmental change while searching for hope and resilience.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

Tofino

Melissa Renwick • British Columbia • 2024

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Tofino's rugged coastline and towering rainforests draw visitors from around the world, but year-round residents are living through a very different story.

Melissa Renwick uses documentary photography to explore how tourism is reshaping one of Canada's most iconic coastal communities.

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Beyond Ecological Grief

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

  • Documented old-growth logging in remote areas of Vancouver Island and Quatsino Sound

    Captured before-and-after imagery showing rapid forest loss over time

    Identified and photographed one of BC’s largest Sitka spruce trees

The Ice Patch Project

Taylor Roades • Yukon • 2025

As alpine ice patches melt across the Yukon, they are revealing hunting tools and cultural artifacts that have remained frozen for thousands of years.

Working alongside First Nations partners, Taylor Roades is documenting these discoveries and the race to record them before exposure to air and moisture causes them to deteriorate.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Photography supported wider awareness campaigns through Ancient Forest Alliance

    Images contributed to public and media attention around old-growth protection

    Work helped support BC’s commitment to protect 30% of provincial lands by 2030

    Protection initiatives now advancing ~200,000 hectares of endangered ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

ACTIVE PROJECTS

QʷAYAĆIIK

Sam Rose Phillips • British Columbia • 2025

Along the west coast of Vancouver Island, people and coastal wolves are increasingly sharing the same landscape.

Through QʷAYAĆIIK, Sam Rose Phillips documents how one Nuu-chah-nulth family is navigating coexistence with a nearby wolf pack, exploring relationships among people, wildlife, and ancestral territory through an Indigenous worldview.

Michael Christopher Brown • British Columbia • 2026

Nearly two decades after first photographing the Muskwa-Kechika, Michael Christopher Brown is returning to the same places.

By placing old and new images side by side, the project creates a rare visual record of how one of North America's largest intact wilderness regions is changing through the eyes of Kaska Dena communities.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

Sacred Balance: Climate Change & Co-Stewardship in
the Muskwa-Kechika

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

A Nation's Fight to Remember: Ancient Forests as Living Memory
for the Ma'amtagila

Maia Wikler • British Columbia • 2025

Ancient forests hold more than towering trees.

Maia Wikler is uncovering the intricate relationships between fungi, plants, and old-growth ecosystems, revealing how underground fungal networks help sustain some of British Columbia's oldest forests and why those hidden connections matter as much as the trees themselves.

  • Documented logging in Quatsino Sound linked to government mapping errors

    Identified one of British Columbia’s largest Sitka spruce trees

    Captured rare before-and-after imagery of old-growth forest loss

    Recorded the scale and pace of clear-cutting across vulnerable ecosystems

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

  • Images supported public awareness campaigns across British Columbia

    Work contributed to advocacy tied to the province’s 30x30 conservation commitment

    Helped strengthen support for Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)

    Photography continues to inform conservation planning and policy discussions

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