Biography:
Acacia Johnson is an artist and photographer from Alaska. Drawn to remote places and otherworldly landscapes, her work has focused on the environment, conservation, and the connections between people and place. After receiving a Fulbright grant to...
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Skills:Translator, Digital Printing, Photo Assisting, Film Scanning, Adobe InDesign, Book Layout/Design, Photo Editing, Black & White Printing, Web Design, Video Editing
During a family camping trip at a fishing lake, an Inuit girl from Arctic Bay, Nunavut plays with a small sled, called a qamutik, which her father has made for her.
A crew member dives off a cruise ship for a quick plunge in Antarctica. Swimmers must be attached to the ship with a rope in case they go into cold shock.
An abandoned house near Kvalnes, Norway. For many years, I dreamed of living in a remote, ancient house such as this. Now that I get older, I understand that I would be lonely.
Tor Edvin Eliassen sits with his father Edvin in their family farmhouse in Skarstad, Northern Norway. The Eliassens have lived a fishing and farming lifestyle in this remote fjord for over a hundred years—but traditional ways of life have almost entirely disappeared, and less than 15 residents remain in their village year-round. Tor Edvin, now 30 and working as a cinematographer in Oslo, has now found himself the sole caretaker of his family's farm.
Tor Edvin Eliassen wanders the frozen landscape of Efjord, Norway, where his family lived a fishing and farming lifestyle for over a hundred years. Now, less than 15 people live in his village year-round, and he has found himself the sole caretaker of his family's farm.
Ghawali (21), from Aleppo, Syria, admires the Efjord mountains in Northern Norway. After a long and harrowing journey from Syria with her father, her entire family has now been reunited in Northern Norway, where she attends school and works at the local senior care center.
Edvin Eliassen, 80, gets his hair cut by his son in the farmhouse in northern Norway where his family has maintained a split fishing and farming lifestyle for over a hundred years. Now, as traditional lifestyles fade into the past and Edvin lives in an assisted living facility, he relies on his son, a 30-year-old cinematographer living in Oslo, to take care of the farm and drive him to visit it during his time off work.
A group of teenage boys from Eritrea and Afghanistan near their home in Leknes, Norway, in the Lofoten Island Archipelago. After making their journeys alone to Norway, the boys were placed in a shared house where they live with the guidance of Norwegian mentors.
Tor Edvin Eliassen looks out over the landscape of Kvalnes, northern Norway. In a remote fjord a few hours away, his family has lived a fishing and farming lifestyle for over a hundred years. Now, less than 15 people live in his village year-round, and he has found himself the sole caretaker of his family's farm.
Edvin Eliassen, 80, rests in the living room of the farmhouse in northern Norway where his family has maintained a split fishing and farming lifestyle for over a hundred years. Now, as traditional lifestyles fade into the past and Edvin lives in an assisted living facility, he and his wife rely on their son, a 30-year-old cinematographer, to take care of the farm and drive them to visit it during his time off work.
Yukie Hayashi, a logistics coordinator and expedition guide from Japan, ashore at Neko Harbour in Antarctica. Known for her leadership skills, emergency medical training, meticulous organization, and constant humor, Yukie also possesses an extensive collection of unusual hats - one of the only ways that people employed in Antarctica can express their individuality through their wardrobe.
The Drake Passage, the notorious body of water separating Argentina and the Antarctic Peninsula, looms outside the portholes of my cabin on an expedition ship. For guides like myself who work long seasons in Antarctica, the turmoil of the Drake is a regular occurrence - a staff member may cross these waters up to 20 times in the course of a single Antarctic summer.
Celebrating the catch of her first seal, Horizon Willie (10) gets a high-five from her aunt, Leesie Naqitarvik, on the sea ice of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.
Peugatuk Ettuk (63) drives his dog team on the sea ice near Arctic Bay, Nunavut. As with many Inuit of his age group, Ettuk was raised in a traditional outpost camp, living nearly entirely off of traditional foods, until being forced to settle in Arctic Bay in his 20s. He was one of the last remaining people in town to drive a dog team, preferring it over a snowmobile. He passed away in 2015.
Outside a tent at the fishing lake of Kuugarjuk, pieces of arctic char wait to be consumed inside. Every year, the community of Arctic Bay arranges a Fishing Derby - a three-day ice fishing competition where most of the community camps together in the wilderness to harvest arctic char.
Near Nuvukutaak, Nunavut, sisters Charlotte and Isabelle Naqitaqvik wait on the sea ice with their mother's sled while family members hunt for ringed seal nearby.
Passengers from an expedition ship explore the frozen landscape of Gnaalodden, Svalbard, in mid-March. Due to rising sea temperatures, the west coast of Spitsbergen is now accessible by ship months earlier than it was only ten years ago.
Backlit by the nighttime sun, a brown bear grazes on protein-rich sedge grass near the campground at Alaska's McNeil River State Game Sanctuary. This area is home to the largest seasonal congregations of brown bears on earth, which gather annually to feed on the area's abundant salmon runs, clams and grasses.
After a month and a half of quarantine, spring in Sweden has burst into full bloom – and coming from Alaska, I've never seen this many flowers in all my life. It seems as the entire landscape is opening its arms to welcome the return of warmer weather—reminding me that the earth, regardless of what's happening on a human scale, both perseveres and expresses joy.