Welcome back Graeme Chesters!

Dr Graeme Chesters is a photographer and writer, he is also Research Director of the 90 North Foundation, a research, education and conservation organisation, whose purpose is the protection of the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO). Graeme has conducted a number of projects on Svalbard, most notably his work - ‘Svalbard People’ - a series of life narrative oral history interviews combined with candid portraits, that was completed during the dark season in 2022, and exhibited in 2023 at the Spitsbergen Artists Centre. Graeme is currently conducting research on story-telling in the high Arctic and how conservationists can communicate the unique characteristics and importance of areas such as the CAO, that few people will ever experience. Whilst at the Artist residency Graeme is also working on a long term photographic series - ‘ice, entropy, order’, which he anticipates will be published as a photographic book, and companion essay in 2026/7.