A Photographic Exploration of Wigi (currently called Humboldt Bay)

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By Aldaron Laird

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For decades, Aldaron has walked the shores of the bay, climbed its nearby sand dunes, and kayaked its entire periphery, taking over 25,000 photos that reveal the beauty of Wigi as it might appear in some magical, glimmering dream. From those thousands of photos, Aldaron selected 119 for this book. For each photo he kept, he discarded 209 others, which means that of those 25,000 images, he used less than one percent. We might think that taking all those photos required a tremendous amount of work, but it soon becomes clear that Aldaron did not work on this book, he lived and breathed its very essence, so that every photo he did select opens like a window, showing us yet another wonderful facet of Wigi, this place of ten thousand smaller places where land and water so subtly, so strikingly meet. -Jerry Rohde

ISBN

978-1-962081-04-7

Publication Date

3-1-2024

Publisher

The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt

City

Arcata

Keywords

Humboldt Bay, Wiyot Ancestral Lands, Climate Change, Landscape Photography

Disciplines

Photography

Recommended Citation

Laird, Aldaron. A Photographic Exploration of Wigi. Humboldt State University Press, 2024. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/monographs/23.

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