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Nina LaFlamme
Nina LaFlamme is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller interested in how communities respond to social and environmental change. Her work focuses on the people behind local food systems, community resilience, and the everyday acts that quietly shape a sense of place.
Drawing on experience across documentary, editorial, commercial, and landscape photography, she brings a thoughtful, adaptable approach to visual storytelling rooted in observation, curiosity, and human connection. She has documented impact stories internationally for non-profit organizations and increasingly focuses on stories closer to home that reflect the possibilities of solutions-based journalism.
She is currently developing Home Grown, an ongoing documentary project exploring the universal human impulse to cultivate food and the ways gardens connect us to culture, resilience, and community.
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In response to an overwhelming obsession with growing food, and an endless curiosity for the personalities and wisdom of home growers, Home Grown was born.
Home Grown is an ongoing documentary photography project exploring our human impulse to cultivate food, and the ways growing it can connect us to place, heritage, and community. Through intimate portraits and observations in the gardens, the project explores a garden as a mirror of one's values, from self-sufficiency and environmental resilience to cultural tradition.
Jordan Mara started growing food at home seven years ago, looking for a way to spend more time working with his hands and less time behind a screen. Today, his garden has become a place of constant curiosity, where he experiments with growing methods and shares what he learns with others through his online platform, Mind and Soil.
Michalina Hunter has been surrounded by gardens and seed saving for as long as she can remember. Today, she carries that longstanding connection to growing food into her work with Cicada Seeds, where she produces perennial vegetable seeds and explores how crops that return year after year can contribute to more resilient and climate-conscious food systems.
Jordan Mara started growing food at home seven years ago, looking for a way to spend more time working with his hands and less time behind a screen. Today, his garden has become a place of constant curiosity, where he experiments with growing methods and shares what he learns with others through his online platform, Mind and Soil.