Jennifer Kinney: Whittier

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Jen Kinney: CityUnder One Roof

It takes a lot to live in Alaska.  I should know as my parents met there, my father working year round as a photographer for construction sites and my mother a tourist who got lucky.  It’s the last of the wild west, a region untamed, spectacular in it’s m

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Writer and photographer, Jen Kinney, has been living and working in Alaska long enough to understand the lifestyle, the people, and the nuances of place.  Her writing is wonderful and accompanies her imagery, weaving together visual and verbal descriptions of life in the north. Her project, City Under One Roof (see pdf of the photographs and writing here) shares her journey in Alaska, and the project featured today, is Whittier, an outgrowth of City Under One Roof.