Alyssa Enriquez presenting at the 2019 Society of Photographic Educators Northwest Conference in Fairbanks, Alaska. Photo: Michael Conti
Alyssa Enriquez is a photo-based artist and arts educator residing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Alyssa completed her MFA in Photography at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and earned her BFA in Fine Art Photography from Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.
Her most recent work subtly investigates social ecology in the subarctic, through the utilization of historic photographic processes to create vignettes of place, the sublime, and human impact on the landscape. These vignettes bear witness to the impermanence of landscape and how land becomes ‘place’ due to human presence.
On a deeply personal level her work captures intimate moments of stillness, introspection, new experiences, and ultimately a sense of identity through these collective moments. Her work has been exhibited in Alaska, New York, California and internationally, held in private collections and published in Permafrost Magazine.