Edmonton, AB, Canada
$750 - $1250 / Day
Request QuoteAmber Bracken is an award-winning independent documentary photojournalist and videographer based in Edmonton, Alberta. Select clients include National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Maclean's and Buzzfeed. A lifelong Albertan, Amber's interest is in the intersection of photography, journalism and public service with a special focus on issues affecting Indigenous people. With the rise of movements like Idle No More, Indigenous communities are increasingly empowered to fight for a more just relationship with the government and non-native people. She is looking for ways to represent and foster that strength while documenting issues around culture, environment and the effects of colonization.
Produced for The Globe and Mail
As a child, art gave Indigenous painter Alex Janvier escape from the horrors of residential school. As an adult, it’s given him nationwide fame and communion with his culture. Watch him prepare for his upcoming exhibit in Italy and muse on his legacy.
Amid vast forests of spruce, pine and poplar trees, deep in the interior of British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived at a small bridge this month to clear a group of First Nations people who had set up a blockade across a narrow, gravel logging road. It is the last corner of unspoiled Wet'suwet'en territory and they are fighting to keep pipelines out.
For Nishnawbe-Aski police officers, the work can be extreme, dangerous and devastating. But historic change is coming.
Photographer Amber Bracken traveled to Sacred Stone Camp outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline has been ongoing for months. Images and footage from the protests have attracted widespread attention, drawing thousands to the camp in support.
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