This project centers around the Alaskan Brown bear as both a representation of strength and a vulnerable piece of its ecosystem. Taken across Alaska, from Denali to Kodiak Island to Katmai, the images mediate between focused details and as well as glimpses of its habitats. In all of these screens collected, they show a being of power yet one defined and sustained by its land.

I have always been fascinated by the bear’s duality of being both a fierce, dominant presence and also capable of moments of stillness, curiosity, and care. For this reason and feeling of connection, I pursued these images to not focus on the subject as a distant or dangerous animal, but rather a larger story of balance and coexistence. The few landscapes I chose to include are meant to act as pauses or breaths, grounding the viewer in the same wilderness the bears call home. In the end, this body of work is about connection, particularly, power and fragility, animal and habitat, and ourselves through these wild landscapes we still are a part of.