Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens and journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius visited boreal forests around the Circumpolar North, ending in Alaska in 2019, in search of the stories of the forests and people who live and work in them.
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BOREALIS: LIFE IN THE WOODS
COUNTER CARTOGRAPHIES: LIVING THE LAND
Counter Cartographies: Living the Land presents contemporary artworks that examine our relationship to land, proposing alternative ways of thinking about and experiencing the landscape around us.
CHARLES MASON: DENALI THROUGH COLLODION
Contemporary Alaska photographer Charles Mason captures present-day Denali National Park through images made with a 19th-century photographic technique called the collodion process.
EXTRA TOUGH: WOMEN OF THE NORTH
Artists, mothers, scientists and makers included in this exhibition testify to the vital role that both Indigenous and newcomer women have held, and continue to hold, in Northern communities.
CREATED TO HOLD POWER (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
Created to Hold Power (Intellectual Property) is a digital solo exhibition of new works by Nicholas Galanin.
BORE TIDE SURFERS: CATCHING ALASKA'S LONGEST WAVE
For the past four years, Alaska photographer Kerry Tasker has followed surfers out onto the silty waters of Turnagain Arm to document their idiosyncratic lifestyle. He has witnessed the growth of a community and a culture, composed around a sole purpose—surfing the tide.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: TATTOOS AND EXPRESSION
Alaska is home to diverse cultures and tattooing traditions. Inuit tattoo has been practiced in Alaska for millennia by Iñupiat and Yup’ik women. Colonization suppressed traditional tattooing, but a new generation of Indigenous women are revitalizing and restoring the practice.
AESTHETICS OF HANGING LAUNDRY
An ongoing photography project presenting images taken by Andreas Hoffmann in the Disko Bay area in northwest Greenland.