Terry Evans: Photographer

In her most recent books, The Inhabited Prairie and Disarming the Prairie, noted landscape photographer Terry Evans uses both aerial and ground photography, in black and white and color, to tell the stories of human change engraved on the prairie and the communities that live there. Raised in Kansas, her long involvement with this unique ecology and culture has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Jens Lund: Interviewer

Folklorist Jens Lund documents occupational poets in the western United States and Canada, and has been involved in research on the traditions of Northwest timber communities, the folklore of Midwestern rivers, and Denmark's resistance to the Holocaust. His 1985 documentary film The Pearl Fishers, about freshwater pearl fishing in Indiana, was chosen the "Best Ethnographic Film—The Americas" by the American Anthropological Association. He is the author of Flatheads and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley.