Wallis Annenberg has announced that the Photo Space will not be re-opening. Read her letter of appreciation on the closing of a chapter in Los Angeles.
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Heidi Bradner
Photographer
Heidi Bradner‘s work documents an Arctic world that is extreme yet fragile and disappearing. Her work also explores our own human past: We were all nomads once. Heidi choses to document the Siberian tundra because she wanted to photograph the cycle of life and light that she knew growing up in the North. She wanted to explore the concept of what we call primitive or civilized, what is considered “extreme” and what is considered “empty” when we see a landscape. A Nenets man told her that he saw the tundra as “the land of the second sun” where the moon, clean snow and a canopy of stars create their own magical light in the long hours of winter darkness. In summer, the Nenets know another sun, the “midnight sun” of the Arctic summer.