New grantee: With AWF's grant, Cofan Survival Fund will continue protecting the ecological reserve they call home in Amazonian Ecuador from the threats of illegal mining. Support the Cofán 👉 cofan.org 📷 Michael Cepek & Kiliii Yuyan 🎧 Cofán elder Etalvina Queta

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📷 Cofan Park Guard by Michael Cepek; Cofán-Bremejo Reservation by Kiliii Yuyan

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Happy Labor day! 👷🏽

Work: Lorino Container, Lorino Fishermen, Chukotka
Collection: Rumors of Arctic Belonging
Artist: Kiliii Yuyan Kiliii Yuyan

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'How do you change the story? You change the storyteller.' Thank you NEWF. Everyone should check out newf.co.za to learn about & support Africa's filmmakers & photographers. #NatGeoStorySummit

Photographer Kiliii Yuyan bears witness to climate transformation in the Arctic, where sea ice cracks and shifts in unrecognizable patterns, caribou alter their migration routes, and melting permafrost causes trees to list and fall. Beyond the Horizon: emergencemagazine.org/gallery/beyond…

“In this time when transition is coming faster than ever, we must relearn how to see the wild as it really is: Our home. Ever-changing.”
View the photo essay, Beyond the Horizon, by Kiliii Yuyan. emergencemagazine.org/gallery/beyond…

Sea ice is the basis for life in the Arctic, but those who weren’t raised in the North are hard-pressed to understand how the ice is changing. One sign is the lack of multiyear ice, thick and taller than multistory buildings.

One of the strangest sights along the Bering Sea coast is the appearance of drunken trees. Entire forests of mature spruce lean close to the ground, unrooted by the permafrost thaw of the ground. The first image is shot in infrared, a way to the see heat on the landscape.

Walking in the ashes requires that we bear witness to unprecedented change and transformation. In few places is this more apparent than the Arctic. Read this week's newsletter featuring a photo essay by Kiliii Yuyan. mailchi.mp/emergencemagaz…

A gorgeous photo essay by Kiliii Yuyan in Emergence Magazine on the visual language of climate change around Utqiagvik and Kotzebue, Alaska—from new beaver lodges and ice formations to muskox circling as they have long done.

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Musk ox, oomingmak, are iconic symbols of Alaska and the Arctic. Their endurance facing winds and subzero temperatures belie a little known story- Alaskan musk oxen were imported from Greenland. Wiped out by European hunters, they were reintroduced by 1960.

See Indigenous model and activist Quannah Rose Chasinghorse react to being on the cover of the National Geographic July 2022 issue.

Cover photo by @kiliiiyuyan

Fun to see my pal Kiliii Yuyan talk with his subject Quannah Chasinghorse🪶⁩ ⁦about the mysterious, collaborative alchemy between photographer and portrait subject (further complicated for Indigenous ppl, who have a not-so-great history w/ photographers): nationalgeographic.com/photography/ar…

👏🏾👏🏼👏🏿 ⁦Quannah Chasinghorse🪶⁩ ⁦
⁦Kiliii Yuyan⁩ 📸

Native Sovereignty for me: being authentic Native self

It’s STILL not safe for us to practice/be our true Native selves

So VOTE & remember - Existence As Protest.

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You may recognize Quannah Chasinghorse🪶 as a model + from the Met Gala but she's also an activist National Geographic featured on the July cover. Sylvia Mphofe & I spoke to Quannah + photog Kiliii Yuyan about how they captured the strength of #Nativesovereignty movement nationalgeographic.com/photography/ar…

Ivan McClellan 🔥
This photographer’s work celebrates lives of Black cowboys and cowgirls washingtonpost.com/photography/20…

A reminder to keep your mind right and not lose sight of the good things in the world (memo to myself).

See Indigenous model and activist Quannah Rose Chasinghorse react to being on the cover of the National Geographic July 2022 issue.

Cover photo by Kiliii Yuyan