Andi | Standing Rock Dakota, Heather Ackroyd; Dan Harvey

These two works are part of the artists’ Protector Series, where activists protecting land from fossil fuel exploitation are captured in chlorophyll through a unique photographic process. The medium is nature itself. Blades of seedling grass provide a highly light-sensitive surface that the artists project a negative onto, creating a complex image imprinted on a molecular level through the production of chlorophyll and photosynthesis. Andi, active in the Standing Rock Dakota campaign, was photographed at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2018.