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All photos:<a class="af oo" href="https://www.jfpetersphoto.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> John Francis Peters</a>. Photo editing by <a class="af oo" href="http://www.michellele.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Michelle Le</a>.</figcaption></figure><p id="c6b1" class="pw-post-body-paragraph op oq hd or b ig os ot ou ij ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk gw bk pl"><span class="l pm pv bo fj pw"><img alt="S" class="nd px py pz qa qb fs n gi dw bh" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:158/1*pc4hDleltE-JSJ9Bx9CMGA.png" width="79" height="79" loading="lazy"/><span class="l pm pn po bo pp pq pr ps pt fj pu">S</span></span>outhern Alberta, Canada, is a place I never thought to go to until my stepmother moved there around six years ago. She’s a member of the Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy, based about two hours south of Calgary. As a doctor, she moved there to open a clinic on the reservation and help her people, which had been a life goal. This was the first time I was able to see her in all those years and visit this place she now calls home.</p><p id="d7e3" class="pw-post-body-paragraph op oq hd or b ig os ot ou ij ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk gw bk">I live in California, and politically, I’m not happy with what’s happening in the United States. I’m really not happy with the social discourse. So it felt good to get away from all the tension, at least for a bit.</p><p id="40b0" class="pw-post-body-paragraph op oq hd or b ig os ot ou ij ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk gw bk">You enter into the landscape as you drive south, the beautifully massive Canadian Rockies off to the west. The landscape becomes these rolling hills and prairies that continue south and east for as far as the eye can see. You’re in this amazing minimal and vast space.</p><p id="1f8f" class="pw-post-body-paragraph op oq hd or b ig os ot ou ij ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj pk gw bk">For me, it’s important as a photographer to get lost sometimes in a space and see what you can produce from that experience. It’s really about getting back to my foundation in photography. 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