Subhankar Banerjee with Peter Matthiessen
Wednesday 31 March 2004
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Award-winning wilderness photographer Subhankar Banerjee presented photographs and talked about his two-year journey through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday 31 March 2004. Following his presentation, Banerjee was interviewed on stage by naturalist Peter Matthiessen.
Mr. Banerjee began his journey in the refuge in 2001. With the help of his Native friend and guide Robert Thompson (Inupiat), he traveled by foot, raft, kayak, and snowmobile in all four seasons of the year. When not exploring the wild vastness of the refuge, Mr. Banerjee lived with Native Gwich’in Athabascan and Inupiat families, where he learned their way of life and came to understand their relationship to the land and the wild animals that live there. His experience resulted in a deep love for this landscape he found pulsing with life, even in the middle of the long, frigid winter.
Peter Matthiessen is a writer, naturalist, and explorer who has been praised as one of the “shamans of literature.” His seven novels include the trilogy Bone by Bone, Lost Man’s River, and Killing Mister Watson, as well as At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga. His nonfiction works include The Snow Leopard, which won the National Book Award; Wildlife in America; and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Mr. Matthiessen, whose writing has been influenced by his study of Zen Buddhism and his interest in indigenous cultures, was born in New York City in 1927. He lives on Long Island, New York.
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