We Are Photographers

Katie Orlinsky has photographed all over the world documenting everything from conflict and social issues to wildlife and sports. Katie’s work has focused on climate change, exploring the transforming relationship between people, animals and the land in the Arctic. Katie is a contributing photographer with National Geographic and her work is frequently published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Smithsonian Magazine. In 2019 she was awarded the Alexia Foundation Professional Grant for her story Chasing Winter.In this episode, Katie shares how an assignment to cover the Yukon Quest - The 1000 Mile International Dog Sled Race in 2014 introduced her to life in the Arctic firsthand. Learn about Newtok, Alaska whose residents will be the first Americans to be relocated because of the effects of climate change. We discuss finding hope in difficult stories and Katie’s project teaching youth mobile photography so that they can tell their own stories in the Arctic. Katie takes us back to her documentary work