Photo 165: Books about place

In the fall of 2021, the seniors in the photography program at Sacramento State created a collaborative artwork about relationships between people and land. Each student was asked to create a volume within a boxed set where they told a story about a person or group of people and their relationship to a specific place. These are selections from that work. PDFs are downloadable, and the printed book or a high res pdf can be purchased via MagCloud—links below. The course was taught by Douglas Dertinger and Eliza Gregory. You can read an article Sac State published about the work here.

We are home | Rebecca maria silva sellen

As descendants of indigenous people, our ancestral line has lived and died on this land for thousands of years. We have never known any other place, yet we struggle with feeling at home and with what it means to be American.

American river watershed | Abigale bollengier

This book has become a collection of my thoughts as I examined the American River. I came to Sacramento in the Fall of 2021 and found myself wanting to learn from the river. I ended up walking along it almost everyday, collecting pieces of it and documenting its interactions.

dotorimuk | Chaebin “vicky” yoon

Dotorimuk means acorn jelly, a classic Korean dish. I never liked it growing up, yet still I grabbed some acorns off the grass of my backyard. This is the story of how acorns took me on a journey to discover culinary and cultural roots.

nature area | Leonardo Rojas

When the Aim Higher campus closed due to the pandemic, the Nature Area was abandoned. When it re-opened, late participant Chris Francil was excited to bring life back to the space with his fellow classmates. Since his passing, his classmates continue to put their efforts towards the restoration of the land.