Amber Bracken

A lifelong Albertan, Amber photographs primarily across western North America to represent the global issues in her own backyard. Her work explores intersections of race, environment, culture and colonization. She specializes in invested relationship based and historically contextualized storytelling that centres people in their own stories. Recent work has focused on intergenerational trauma in Cree youth, Wet'suwet'en reoccupation and land rights fights, the overrepresentation of un-housed Indigenous people displaced in their historic territories, and interrogating the impact of race in her own family. Select recognition includes The Marty Forscher Fellowship and an ICP Infinity Award. In 2022, Amber’s photo of the Kamloops Residential School in Canada won the World Press Photo Picture of the Year award.

Website: www.amberbracken.com

Instagram and Twitter: @photobracken