wdlove
Jun 5, 2004, 06:46 PM
"In my life," Subhankar Banerjee likes to say, "there are no straight lines." Certainly, it wasn't any direct route that brought him from India to Harvard's Museum of Natural History via Alaska.
Today, "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land" opens at the museum. It consists of 49 photographs Banerjee took over the course of 14 months in the 19-million-acre refuge above the Arctic Circle.
The absence of straight lines applies to the exhibition, too. In fairly short order, it went from gleam in Banerjee's eye to book to display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to political football in the debate over opening up the refuge to oil drilling.
Speaking by telephone last month from his Seattle home, Subhankar (pronounced Shoo-BUN-ker) Banerjee (Ban-NER-jee) recounted what it was that brought him to Alaska.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/06/05/capturing_the_likeness_of_an_arctic_land/
Today, "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land" opens at the museum. It consists of 49 photographs Banerjee took over the course of 14 months in the 19-million-acre refuge above the Arctic Circle.
The absence of straight lines applies to the exhibition, too. In fairly short order, it went from gleam in Banerjee's eye to book to display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to political football in the debate over opening up the refuge to oil drilling.
Speaking by telephone last month from his Seattle home, Subhankar (pronounced Shoo-BUN-ker) Banerjee (Ban-NER-jee) recounted what it was that brought him to Alaska.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/06/05/capturing_the_likeness_of_an_arctic_land/
