Subhankar Banerjee’s current project began in 2000 as a study of the ecological and cultural diversity of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in all four seasons. His vision has since evolved into a visual exploration of the Arctic ’s connection to larger global issues
such as; resource wars, global warming, toxic migration and human rights struggles of the indigenous northern communities. Banerjee’s ongoing collaboration with Gwich’in and Inupiat communities focuses on a tradition of sustainable land use practices that are disappearing rapidly from industrialized societies around the world. Banerjee’s photographic documentation includes several regions of the American Artic, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Teshekpuk Lake Wetlands, the Utukok River Uplands, the Kasegaluk Lagoon, and the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas . He hopes to expand his work to the Greenlandic and the high Canadian arctic in the coming years.
