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Kim Stringfellow

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Covers:  Mojave Desert, Joshua Tree, Salton Sea, Morongo Basin, environment, people, places, visual arts, climate change, jackrabbit homesteading
Artist, photographer, writer, explorer kimstringfellow.com, mojaveproject.org jackrabbithomestead.com thereitistakeit.org greetingsfromsaltonsea.com

Kim Stringfellow’s Journalist Portfolio

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Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon's Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque

Bearing Witness: Danny Lyon's Journey West Highlighted in Albuquerque

Southwest Contemporary — Danny Lyon-photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer-is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.

An expedition through Kim Stringfellow's Mojave

An expedition through Kim Stringfellow's Mojave

High Country News — Journalist Meg Bernhard's (New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker) in-depth feature on The Mojave Project for the High Country News. "The artist's transmedia project highlights the vitality of the desert's many histories."

Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022

Report on the Waterworks of the Arid Mojave Desert Region of the United States 2022

mojaveproject.org — How overuse, megadrought and climate change are threatening the dwindling water supply of the Colorado River. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Downwind Upshot-Knothole

Downwind Upshot-Knothole

mojaveproject.org — Between 1951 and 1996, the AEC detonated 1,021 nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site releasing billions of curies of radiation onto the American public. This Mojave Project dispatch focuses on the aftermath of the Upshot-Knothole atmospheric atomic test series' most infamous shot—Dirty Harry. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+

Jackrabbits, Ghost Grids and LandBanking+

mojaveproject.org — Jackrabbit Homesteading and California City's elaborate ghost grid provide two examples of Southern California's uniquely bizarre development patterns. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi

Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi

mojaveproject.org — The Salt Song is a vast interconnected ritual song map describing the sacred geography of the Nuwuvi people (Southern Paiute). This Mojave Project dispatch features Chemehuevi elder and activist Matt Leivas, Sr. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Desert Gold: Part II

Desert Gold: Part II

mojaveproject.org — Desert Gold Part II examines the environmental repercussions of gold mining that has resulted in thousands of abandoned mines across the Mojave Desert. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Desert Gold: Part I

Desert Gold: Part I

mojaveproject.org — Desert Gold Part I overviews the history and personalities of Mojave's boom and bust gold mining period during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Making Astronauts in Mojave

Making Astronauts in Mojave

mojaveproject.org — Mojave, California has led civilian-led commercial space travel since 2004 when Scaled Composites won the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE. This Mojave Project dispatch provides the backstory of aerospace development in Mojave and features '86 Voyager co-pilot Dick Rutan. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron

Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron

mojaveproject.org — Many people have attempted to unravel the mystery of Giant Rock in Landers, California—the former site of George Van Tassel's 1950s-era UFO conventions. This Mojave Project dispatch attempts to crack the myth. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold

Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold

mojaveproject.org — The Kokoweef legend purporting a mythic Lost River of Gold has mesmerized Mojave Desert treasure seekers for over 80 years, but is it geologically possible? Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Holes in the Desert

Holes in the Desert

mojaveproject.org — From makeshift meth labs to the Manson Family—a compendium of criminal activities in the Mojave Desert. Dispatch and photography by Kim Stringfellow. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Divining Devils Hole: Part II

Divining Devils Hole: Part II

mojaveproject.org — Southern Nevada's Ash Meadows is today a stunning oasis of glistening crystal blue pools. But it was nearly obliterated by unsustainable human activities forty years ago. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Divining Devils Hole: Part I

Divining Devils Hole: Part I

mojaveproject.org — Devils Hole is a fossil water portal into an ancient aquifer whose depth remains unknown. Here, the world's rarest pupfish precariously holds onto survival. This article is co-published with KCET Artbound. https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/projects/the-mojave-project

Of Earth and Domes: Hesperia's Cal-Earth Sustainable Architecture

Of Earth and Domes: Hesperia's Cal-Earth Sustainable Architecture

KCET-TV (Burbank, CA) — The California Institute of Earth Architecture hopes their Superadobe construction technique may be applied to more traditional contemporary homes found throughout SoCal suburbs.

The Photobooks of Ed Ruscha

The Photobooks of Ed Ruscha

KCET-TV (Burbank, CA) — Critical response to Ed Ruscha's series of mass-produced, ubiquitous artist photobooks has been hostile, but many artists have been inspired by his photobook designs and content for decades.

Forget 'Chinatown,' Get the Real Story of California's Most Famous Water War

Forget 'Chinatown,' Get the Real Story of California's Most Famous Water War

KCET-TV (Burbank, CA) — There It Is--Take It! is an audio tour through the Owens Valley examining the controversial social, political, and environmental history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct system.