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Projects

California on the Edge
A feature-length documentary film that explores how communities are working to protect, repair and salvage a climate-changed coastline
Popup Story Patch: Love Letters to the More-Than-Human World
A short film about Blue Lab's inaugural Popup Story Patch at Morris Arboretum & Gardens in Philadelphia
Watershed
A Speculative Atlas of California
And Hell Followed
Digging Out in the Palisades Fire Burn Zone
Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory
Views from Crete
Under the Darkening Sky
Views from An American Roadtrip
Animalia
Views from the Animal-Human Interface
A Prayer to Iemanjá
The Collapsing Fisheries of Northeastern Brazil
Oregon West
A Field Survey
A New Pastoral
Views of the San Joaquin Valley
The Fall of King Sugar
A Story of Oahu's Diverging Foodways
Industrial Materials
Mining California
Portraiture
Protected: The Last Fisherman
Protected: The Coastal Californians
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American Photographic Artists San Diego and Photographer's Eye Collective (Group Show)
Mapping Perspectives
Throughline Collective and FotoFest Houston (Group Show)
Watershed
A Speculative Atlas of California (Solo Shows)
Scattered Seeds
Community Seed Savers in the Diaspora
(Solo Show)
Unreal City
Views from the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Solo Show)
A Pesca
Commercial Fishing in Northeastern Brazil (Solo and Group Shows)
A New Pastoral
Views of the San Joaquin Valley (Solo Shows)
Barron Bixler: And Hell Followed
Interview, LENSCRATCH
And Hell Followed: Digging Out in the Palisades Fire Burn Zone
Photo Essay, Blue Lab
Digging Out in the Palisades Fire Burn Zone: Portraits of the Workers Shoring up A Broken World
Photo Essay, High Country News
Barron Bixler’s Images Illustrate the Hangover to Our Great Optimism
Interview, aPhotoEditor
Watershed: A Speculative Atlas of California
Project Feature, Fraction Magazine Issue 176
Animalia: Views from the Animal-Human Interface
Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 (Special Mention)
Industrial Materials: Mining California
Photo Essay, BOOM: A Journal of California, 5.2
John Muir: A Century On
Essay by Glen M. MacDonald, photographs by Barron Bixler, BOOM: A Journal of California, 4.3
Museum Exhibition Tackles California Farmland and Farmwork
Exhibition Review, Civil Eats
Ag’s Stark Beauty
Exhibition Spotlight, Fresno Bee: Spotlight
On Photographing America’s Agriculture Industry
Interview, DVAFoto
Protected: Seed Farm 10.10.22
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Protected: Seed Farm 09.09.22
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Protected: Seed Farm
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Protected: High Water Line 04.28.20
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Protected: Matt Desmond Proofs
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Popup Story Patch
A public art project that invites visitors into conversations, experiences and creative projects that reframe how they imagine the more-than-human world
Art of Science
A biennial exhibition that celebrates, and interrogates, the interplay of two fields that are essential realms of human expression
Play the LA River
A yearlong public art project to reimagine the LA River as a generative public space that can green and reconnect LA's diverse communities