Recent Work: Oceti Sakowin Camp Nights

I returned to the water protectors and the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock in December. The camp had grown in size since my previous visit in September. It seemed to me more organized, focused and unified around taking care of each other and actively winterizing and preparing for the brutal weather that was already settling in. During the day the camp was often frenetic and chaotic with people and supplies arriving constantly and various construction and winterization projects underway. But at night? At night the camp took on a more quiet and haunting feeling, backlit by the floodlights of the DAPL pipeline always in the background. Wherever you were in that camp at night you couldn't escape those floodlights and the sense that something ominous lay just beyond them...