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In 2022 Jeff traveled to Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Change Conference (COP 27) as a Native leader and witnessed the need to have a strong voice as an indigenous person who intimately understands and is tied to the environmental change that is rapidly occurring. Jeff is now arranging to assemble and coordinate a canoe journey to the City of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 for COP 28. This will be an effort to assert an indigenous voice in and at those negotiations. Canoes can be used as a vehicle to transmit the ancient relationship that Native America has with the earth and the changes that are being wrought by global climate change.
Full-time freelance photo and videographer Jeff Ferguson was born in Pullman WA, raised in Spokane, WA where he currently resides. He has lived, worked and traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad.
He is a Spokane Tribal member who holds an A.A.S. in Photography from Spokane Falls Community College, B.A. in Communications from Whitworth University and an M.B.A. from Gonzaga University.
He finds much of his inspiration from both the urban and rural areas of the Inland Northwest and his Native heritage. He also finds inspiration from great photographers such as Gordon Parks, Edward Curtis, Lewis Hine, Richard Avedon, Mary Ellen Mark, Ansel Adams and Joel Grimes.
Although most of his work is commercial, editorial, portraiture and sports photography, his true passions lie in documentary video, nature and landscape photography and cultural preservation.”
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