March 29, 2014. A group of boys climb a tree on the Xingu River by the city of Altamira, Para State, Brazil. Major areas of the city have been permanently…
In his series, Where the River Runs Through, which was chosen for the Critical Mass Top 50, photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim presents Where the River Runs Through, a profound portrait of the people and the landscape at the precipice of a massive change whose impact on the indigenous communities and the environment are devastating. Elkaim shares his insights into the impact of industry on the earth.
Among the exhibits at this year’s Look3 festival is Aaron Vincent Elkaim’s project on the consequences of Brazil’s ambitious plans to build dams to propel its economy.
When Aaron Vincent Elkaim reached the Xingu River basin in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest in 2014, he found a lush and humid green expanse that made him feel as if he were infinitesimally small, living “inside a single giant organism.” The region is one of the world’s most biologically and ethnically diverse areas, home to about 25,000 indigenous people, many of whom live as their ancestors did in close relationship to the land.
For Sleeping with the Devil, photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim traces the cultural and environmental conflicts wrought by major oil companies along the landscape of Northern Alberta and the Athabasca River, along which Native American communities once flo
For Sleeping with the Devil, photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim traces the cultural and environmental conflicts wrought by major oil companies along the landscape of Northern Alberta and the Athabasca River, along which Native American communities once flourished.
“Let me start by saying that I am not much of a sports fan,” the Toronto-based photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim told me while recounting his experience photographing the thousand-and-forty-nine-mile race across Alaska, for Ben McGrath’s piece about the Iditarod, the self-proclaimed “last great race on earth,” in this week’s Journeys Issue. “This is not only a race of strength and endurance,” Vincent Elkaim said, “but one of complex strategy and mind games.”
Aaron Vincent Elkaim Fort McKay: Sleeping with The Devil For thousands of years the Cree and Dene people of the Athabasca River in Northern Alberta have watched, as the tarry sands along the…
For thousands of years the Cree and Dene people of the Athabasca River in Northern Alberta have watched, as the tarry sands along their banks oozed into the river and stuck to their feet.
