Witness: Stuart Klipper

Stuart Klipper is an internationally known fine art photographer based in Minneapolis. He has spent decades traveling the planet capturing photographs that crystallize the defining characteristics of many countries and regions including the Sinai, Central and South America, Svalbard, Sri Lanka and Alaska. He has also worked frequently in Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland and other areas of the Nordic region.

Following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, Klipper returned to an area of northern Sweden that he had previously fallen in love with – the Sápmi region, the indigenous homeland of the Sami people. Klipper found and photographed a forever altered landscape and documented aspects of the impacted culture. The images were created with support from the McKnight Foundation and were originally exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website