Melissa Naef

Biography

As a Klondike-based artist, Melissa uses her surrounding environment and community as a primary influence in her work. With her unique heritage of Swiss roots with a Northern Canadian upbringing, her work explores and expresses the idea of identity, interpersonal relationships, and the meaning of home. Through the use of analogue and alternative photographic processes, Melissa's works encompass land, community and materiality in an intimate experience.

Melissa is most recently a graduate of NSCAD University with a  Bachelor of Fine Arts  (major in Photography). She is also a freelance photographer, who has experience in both commercial and fine art environments. 

"Melissa's photos are full of care for the place she grew up, and her work captures what life is like up here far beyond, and far more tenderly, than the vast expanses of wilderness we are known for." - Aubyn O’Grady, Program Director at the Yukon School of Visual Arts.