Exposure: Portraits at the Edge of the Nuclear + Long Table Discussion

Portrait Sessions with Artist Will Wilson
Dec 13-15, Sat-Mon, 11 AM-3 PM

As part of the Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX), Diné artist Will Wilson invites participants with lived, inherited, or visionary relationships to nuclear culture—uranium mining, atomic testing, environmental cleanup, and speculative futures—for a portrait session using the historic wet plate collodion process.

Created on-site at SITE SANTA FE, these tintype portraits become a living archive of those who have been affected by, have resisted, or continue to dream through the legacy of nuclear colonialism. Wilson’s process foregrounds Indigenous visual sovereignty and ecological witnessing, positioning photography as a relational act and a tool for historical redress.

Long Table Public Participatory Discussions*
*Only on Saturday 12/13 and Sunday 12/14 at 2 PM

Attendees are further invited to participate in The Long Table, a horizontal format for honest, open discussion based on current nuclear affairs. The Long Table is a non-hierarchical, democratic forum for public discussion. Initially devised as a creative response to conventional hierarchies of ‘expert panels’ followed by ‘audience questions’, event attendees are instead invited to both observe and contribute to the conversation. Anyone is welcome to take a seat at the table and offer their perspective.

Conversationalists at this Long Table include artist Will Wilson, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE), Back from the Brink (BftB), and artist Shayla Blatchford of Anti-Uranium Mapping Project.