Subhankar Banerjee (photographer)
Subhankar Banerjee (born 1967) is a photographic artist, educator and activist whose images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other Alaskan wild lands have captured international attention.
Early life
Born in
Career
In 2001 Banerjee began the first of two years of ground-breaking year-around field photography in the
Banerjee's book, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (Seven Stories Press, Summer 2012), addresses current issues of climate change in the Arctic, resource war, and human rights using first-person narratives from activists, writers, and researchers.[5] The volume is used for teaching environmental humanities[6] and has formed the basis for other projects, such as a 2018 series of haiku poems.[7]
Awards
Banerjee has received many awards for his Arctic work including an inaugural Greenleaf Artist Award from the
Notes
- ^ Subhankar Banerjee (2003). Seasons of Life and Land. Mountaineer Books.
- ^ Censorship or Politics? Views Differ Over Exhibit
- ^ Finis Dunaway, "Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge", in A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History, The University of Alabama Press, 2009
- ^ Amon Carter Museum of American Art, introduction to "Subhankar Banerjee: Where I Live I Hope to Know" http://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/subhankar-banerjee-where-i-live-i-hope-to-know
- ^ Book page for Arctic Voices.
- ISBN 9781317423225.
- ^ Helman, Daniel (1 August 2018). "When the Whales Left". Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics. 5 (2). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
Further reading
- Tursi, Alexandra (12 April 2010). "The Eco-Critical Photographer: An Interview With Subhankar Banerjee". Identity Theory (webzine). Retrieved 29 March 2011.