Dreamers

Amber Bracken is a freelance photojournalist from Edmonton. As the first Canadian journalist to receive the World Press Photo prize, her work has been published in The Globe and Mail, National Geographic, & The New York Times. She is interested in the intersection of photography, journalism, and public service, with a special focus on race, environment, culture and decolonization, and issues affecting North American Indigenous people. Working on stories from Western Canada, she gained recognition for covering the Wet’suwet’en reoccupation and land rights struggles, the Kamloops Residential School and the intergenerational trauma caused by Residential Schools, the issues faced by unhoused Indigenous people displaced in their ancestral lands, and for exploring the impact of race within her own family. Bracken’s work captures pivotal moments and challenges prevailing narratives, contributing significantly to the understanding of complex socio-political issues through visual storytelling.