Ocean to Forest, Death to Life
2020–now

A photo diary of salmon ecologies across the Duwamish watershed, where I grew up. Every year, millions of Pacific salmon migrate back through their ancestral waterways to spawn and die where they were born. Retracing the earth’s magnetic and chemical pathways over hundreds of miles, salmon return home to birth new life and pass onto the next. Oceanic phosphorus and nitrogen in their bodies then fertilize the riverbeds, feeding generations of forests and fauna across the Pacific Northwest. In this sacred ritual, death becomes life.