Further North

Combined images from Further North & Somewhere Beyond Nowhere represent two bodies of work that began with documentation of remote communities and isolated landmasses in northern Quebec, Alberta and BC. These images explore definitions of wilderness and how it is experienced. Together they hope to question problematic, colonial definitions of wilderness, as it is often defined as a vast and empty space or a backdrop for anthropocentric ways of life.  

Images of Indigenous communities, animals, traces of extractive industries, make-shift cabins, and off-the-grid shelters mark the messy boundaries between wilderness and the neighbourhooding communities. Invited to photograph remote Indigenous and settler communities, these images document an ongoing desire to record their existence.