Biodiversity. Extraction. Climate.David Ellingsen is a Canadian photo-based artist exploring biodiversity and environmental changes through long-term photographic projects. The work is grounded in the “more-than-human” world, tracing how species and ecosystems are shaped by consumption, resource extraction, and climate change.
Installation 3, Lance-tooth Crosscut Saw

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Photography, Pigment ink on cotton rag paper
30 x 45 inches
Selective Memory

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Photograph, Pigment ink on cotton rag paper
30 x 45 inches, edition of 5 / 20 x 30 inches, edition of 7
A Familiar Land
You must return to a place to truly know it, and the more you return, the deeper that knowing becomes. These photographs meditate on this understanding through slow, measured observation along the coast of the Salish Sea and the Pacific Rim in southern British Columbia.
Thunder

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Chromogenic print
36 x 36 inches
Four Point Four Acres

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Photograph, Pigment ink on cotton rag paper
50 x 71 inches
Homeward Drift
Standing at the shore, the gull seems perfectly at home…whale, seal, salmon, and otter glide in exquisite alignment with their surroundings.
Falling Boundary

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Photograph, Pigment ink on cotton rag paper
30 x 37.5 inches, edition of 5 / 20 x 25 inches, edition of 7
Southern Resident Killer Whale, Orcinus orca

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Photography, Pigment ink on cotton rag paper
40 x 60 inches / 30 x 45 inches
Reach out