Native photographer John Hagen has won his second Rasmuson Project Award, a prestigious $7,500 award for Alaskan artists, to photograph salmon season in the village of Ugashik in the Bristol Bay region. Hagen won the award four years ago as well, for his landscape photography in Haines.
This project will reconnect Hagen with the village where his Unungan ancestors lived before the 1918 flu epidemic. The epidemic, said Hagen, was perhaps the biggest factor that…