MGB in an agricultural Tibetan village, photo by Michelle Kleisath, 2005. MADELEINE GRAHAM BLAKE, a native of Klamath Falls, Oregon, studied photography as a fine art medium at San Francisco State College in the late 60's with Don Worth and Jack Welpott. Her two books are Balancing Water: Restoring the Klamath Basin, (with Tupper Ansel Blake and William Kittredge, 2000) and Mandeville Island: A Fine Balance (with Tupper Ansel Blake and William Kittredge, 2005). She has produced fine art portfolios for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Conserving California Landscapes Initiative (with Tupper Ansel Blake, 2003) and for Tuscany Research Institute (with Tupper Ansel Blake, 2004). Reproductions of her images have been included in numerous publications, including Western Horseman, Oceans Magazine, Orion, Mademoiselle Magazine, Darkroom Magazine, and PhotoMetro Magazine. She is currently working on MOTHERING IN THE WEST, a literary and photographic collaboration with writer Linda Hussa. Documenting a uniquely traditional approach to raising children, it explores how ranching families are the true custodians of our own Western heritage. This effort is a non-profit project of the Great Basin Institute and will result in a University of Nevada Press book, and a trraveling exhibition curated by the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon. Scheduled completion is 2008. |