Documentary Field Notes and Flashpoints: archive

The Headless range, Funeral range, Murder Creek, Hell Roaring Creek…..some of the names in the Nahanni river valley (Northwest Territories, on the Yukon border) are pretty forbidding. They remind us of the many desperate stories from the explorations of the first half of the twentieth century, at the tail end of the gold rush. But [...]

I come from a family of teachers and the artists. From the former, in particular my mother Kerstin and her father Effe, I learned about the value of intellectual curiosity and learning. From the artists I feel I learned not just about aesthetics, but also about the value of a creative interpretation of the world [...]