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Manitobah Mukluk's

What did I get Gary for his birthday this year?….WORK!

BUT…we flew to the top of a mountain with a group of the best crew and talent you could ask for, and there was cake so…I still call that a win.

This past spring, we got a call from TSU North, asking if we wanted to work on the new Manitobah Mukluk’s campaign they were doing, and the obvious answer was immediately yes.

So while TSU created a stunning film piece featuring the talented Notorious Cree and Kendra Jessie in some of Yukon’s most epic locations, we created the partnering photography campaign. This project took us from industrial wearhouses to insaaane Yukon mountain tops, and we also got to feature a set of local powerhouse Indigenous models as well!

This project was so special to us, as anyone who knows our company, knows that working with brands that are doing good in this world, with strong values is so vital to us. Being able to work with such an incredible set of talent from both the crew and the modelling side was the perfect way to kick off our summer season.

We’re so stoked this campaign is now out in the world and that we’re able to share it!

Hiy Hiy to our unbelievable cast and crew and to TSU North and Manitobah Mukluks for bringing us onto such a powerful project.

Photographer: Gary Bremner

Producer: Brianne Bremner

Photo Assistant: Stu Davis

Makeup: Akiko Allen

Hair Styling: Victoria Williams

Wardrobe/Props: Tara Kolla

Models: Kendra Jessie, James Jones, Tianna Reti, Marlon Scarff, Jiah Dzentu, Tanner Coyne

And a little BTS for good measure….

Traditional Territories uncovered

A few weeks back, Gary was invited to a very special place for the Kwanlin Dun people. For thousands of years, their ancestors have hunted caribou on high mountain ice patches where the caribou go to escape the flies in the summer.  Now, due to climate change, these ice patches are melting and revealing artifacts that are some of the most well preserved specimens archaeologists have ever seen in this part of the world. 

The ice has preserved organic materials that are thousands of years old, and normally have long disappeared.  They have found projectiles with actual feather fletchings still on them! They have found moccasins, arrows, bone tools, and have even found and entire person. The quality and amount of discoveries has created a whole new type fo archaeology that now looks into melting ice patches specifically.

One of the best parts of the day for Gary, was hanging out with an elder that used to come to hunt in this very spot with her family, but hand't been there in over 40 years! Gary was lucky enough to hear her stories of walking all the way there with only the things on their back so they would have room to pack the dried meat all the way back to their home at Fish Lake.

What an incredible experience, to not only be at that important archeological site where people have been hunting caribou for thousands of years, but then also to be there with an elder who actually hunted there with her family as a child, watching caribou just hanging out on those same ice patches today...

Huge thank you to the Kwanlin Dun First Nation for having us out on their traditional territory to help them document such an important part of their history. It was truly an honour and un-unforgettable experience.