Barron Bixler is a social-environmental documentary photographer, writer, designer and curator. He is Creative Director of Blue Lab at Princeton University.
Since 2006, Bixler has traveled within and beyond the borders of California to chronicle a range of environmental problems—from water and wildfire to mining and industrial-scale agriculture. Focusing mainly on the American West, his photographs explore the collisions of—and interstices between—urban, suburban, industrial, rural and wild landscapes to tell stories about the complex ways in which human beings shape the lands they inhabit.
Bixler is a founding member of the Los Angeles-based arts collective Project 51, which was awarded a major grant by ArtPlace America for its project Play the LA River. His photographs, writings, and other art and design projects have been featured in BOOM: A Journal of California, Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, Civil Eats, KCET Artbound, Dwell, LAist, KUSC Arts Alive, the Fresno Bee and the Stockton Record
