Alaskan Photographer & Writer (Under Revision)
Bill Hanson is an Alaskan photographer and writer based in Juneau who lives, loves, and eats landscapes. He can be found rummaging through rainforests and salty water Archipelagos in search of wild foods, landscapes of beauty, and endless adventure.
Bill’s 45 years of working as a biologist, forester, and commercial seafood processor kindle his desire to share his knowledge and his passion for Alaska’s remarkable landscapes.
His daily explorations begin five minutes from his doorstep, where he can launch his skiff into saltwater or hike the first deer trail without the fetters of “No Trespassing” signs. He loves to supply his family table with local mushrooms, wild plants, seafood, and venison, knowing that these foods re-create the landscape in our minds and muscles.
Website Update (9/12/2022): I’m in the process of adding substantial photography to my website and completing other improvements. Currently, the best place to view my photography is my Instagram account: @bhfootloose. See sidebar for Instagram and other social links.
Photography Exhibitions (to be moved new page)
Incomplete – Under Construction
2021 Why We Won’t Just Leave: What Alaska is Telling the World About Climate Change.
A virtual exhibition curated by Lindsay Carron and presented by Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) that highlighted the responses of Alaskans to their rapidly changing environment. Portraits, paintings, photography, stories, and video profiles of 20 artists, activists, researchers and community organizers responding to climate change in Alaska.
B. Hanson: Narrative (excerpt): “Connection” A disappearing glacier shares warming atmosphere with people in Los Angeles, Alaska, and across the world . Pink Salmon eggs, permafrost, tundra, vast rock avalanches in Glacier Bay- all are connected. How do we live our internal landscape.
Mendenhall Glacier 1958-2018: composite digital image (2020): B. Hanson 2018 vs Millet, Marion T (1958) courtesy of National Snow & Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder, CO.
Broken Blue Ruins at Low Tide, Lamplugh Glacier (2020), Glacier Bay National Park. (also used in Tryptich Cover & Promotional materials).
Portrait of Kate Troll and Glacial Ice, Alsek River (2020).
Rainforest Cascade (2020)
Alaska Billy Blog: Landscapes Shape Our Lives
Although I’m no longer posting to the Billy Blog, I’ve left previous posts and photos intact.
Billy Blog brings together my love of my home landscape and my fascination with landscapes across the world. What new discovery do I find each day in the islands and fjords of Southeast Alaska? How does life in the Markha Valley in Ladakh, India with its 17,000-foot passes shape the people who live there?
But landscape is not just about the people and places of today. How does our landscape connect us to our ancestors and our history? Currently, I’m using the Alaska Billy Blog to explore my family history and write my most recent novel, Spinning Heart.
Alaska Billy Blog: Exploring Life in Alaskan Landscapes
Musings on Alaskan wild landscapes, ecology, and life. Join me as I explore my Southeast Alaska home landscape with occasional forays into the rest of the world. A selection from my daily @bhfootloose Instagram posts. You can also go directly to my most recent Instagram posts by clicking the thumbnails on the sidebar (you don’t need an Instagram account for this). Go to the Alaska Billy Blog…
Alaska Billy Blog: Landscapes of the Past Shape Our Future Lives
In 1903, my grandfather and namesake, Billy Hanson, homesteaded 160 acres arid land in Wyoming. The Billy Blog touches on the history of life in the rural West from 1881 to 1964. Go to the Alaska Billy Blog…