Women – Photography – Oral History – Environment
Landscape Stories is an eight-part interactive documentary that tells the story of the American landscape, as seen through the lens of female landscape photographers. The project blends oral history, stunning images, site-based storytelling, and archival footage/interviews into an exploration of how we see and understand the land in the United States.
One section is completed: Fossil Futures. The project was funded in part by the National Association of Broadcasters Pilot Innovation Grant, and was designed to test interactive platforms for effectiveness in news storytelling. The link explains the research our team did to land on the interactive online approach – an approach we’ll use for the remaining project segments.
Three sections are in production and scheduled for release in 2025 and 2026. 365 Days is an experimental artistic i-doc, spending a year watching and listening to the land and asking it to share its oral history with us. The Colorado River and The Nuclear Industrial Complex will be released in the coming months. One tells the story of the landscape, history, and politics of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The other explores how attitudes to “waste” lands of the American Southwest led to using the lands for the development and testing of atomic weapons, and the impacts that decision had on the lands and people who call it home.