In 2016, I was named Artist in Residence at Gates of the Arctic National Park, one of the wildest and least visited parks in the system. There was no quaint cabin, no workshops with visitors, and little opportunity for relaxation. Rather, this residency was a wilderness trip through Alaska’s remote Brooks Range. A wild place, in the truest sense.
In the company of a Gates of the Arctic backcountry ranger, I pack-rafted and backpacked 80+ miles over 10 days, crossing some of the wildest landscapes left in North America. In those ten days, we saw not one other human being. This is the story of that journey, the photographic and physical challenges encountered, and offers insight into what it’s like to travel and photograph in one of the world’s last, great, wilderness parks.
PS. Let me know what you think of the video in the comments. This is my first real effort into this kind of film-making, and I’m eager to create more, if people enjoyed it.