David Ellingsen

David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist making work that speaks to the relationship between humans and the natural world, typically with long-term projects focusing on forests, biodiversity and climate. Ellingsen descends from a family of immigrants and the first settlers to reside on Cortes Island. His work draws upon this family history, one often embedded within British Columbia’s troubled forest industry, and the photographs reflect on the impacts of resource extraction and consumption on the other-than-human inhabitants of past, present, and future eco-systems.