Published January 9, 2024
Iñupiaq photographer Brian Adams shot this entire photo series on film. Adams’ work documenting Alaska Native communities began in 2005, when he attended his grandmother’s funeral in Kivalina, an Iñupiaq village on the northwest coast of Alaska. “It was the community feeling of making photographs in the village that made me realize I wanted to spend my career photographing Indigenous communities,” he says. Based in Anchorage, Adams is the co-founder of Indigenous Photograph and The 400 Years Project.