Holly Andersen

Artist Spotlight: A portfolio of landscape and wildlife photographs from the Makkovik artist.

A bundle of small purplish-blue wildflower buds emerge from under a piece of driftwood in a rocky area.
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Holly Andersen is a photographer from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, NL. Andersen is interested in photography’s ability to preserve moments in time, or capture minute details. Her photographic practice encompasses a wide range of subjects including candid and portraiture photography of family and friends, macro photography of insects and nature, and landscape photography including local wildlife. 

A bundle of small purplish-blue wildflower buds emerge from under a piece of driftwood in a rocky area.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A black-and-white photograph shows two huskies nuzzling each other.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.

Andersen is a participant in the National Film Board’s Labrador Docs Project, where her film focuses on the relocation of Inuit residents to other Labrador coastal communities around 1959 when the Moravian mission at Hebron closed down. Andersen has been featured at La Guilde in Montreal in the exhibit Our Beautiful Land, and the Bonavista Biennale in Newfoundland, and has also written articles with her work for the Inuit Art Quarterly.

A colour photograph of a person on rocky ground, facing away from the viewer. Behind them is an immense blue sky with fluffy clouds and a curved streak of cloud vapour across the centre of the image.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph shows a person standing at the edge of a snowy rock ledge overlooking the water, facing away from the viewer.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A black-and-white photograph shows a person at the top of a rocky path, facing away from the viewer, between two mountainous rock formations.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph shows a fox in the snow, its body angled towards the viewer but its head turned to the right.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph shows a person crouching at the edge of a rolling rocky shore, with orange lichen carpeting the rocks.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph shows a large group of birds flying just above the water alongside a rolling rocky shore.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph shows a group of birds landing in the water. Behind them is a forested area with and orange glow which reflects in the water.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph of a rolling snowy landscape with a lone husky at centre right.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A black-and-white photograph of a fox resting on top of a rounded outcropping of rocks.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A colour photograph of two birds taking off from the water.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.
A black-and-white photograph shows a person’s boot in a snowshoe at bottom left and one gloved hand reaching down at top right, where a clump of brush is smouldering in the snow.
PHOTO: HOLLY ANDERSEN. COURTESY THE ARTIST.

This story is part of the Nunatsiavut Spotlight. View more content from the Spotlight here.

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