Nevada Wier

"I photograph people," says Nevada Wier. "I really like people — occasionally a tree or two — but mostly people." She also likes to travel and has combined these two affections into one pursuit: "I realized, forget trying to go to places where there are no people — and there are people everywhere. And I fell in love with indigenous cultures."

She last spoke at Mountainfilm in 1996 about the Kirghiz nomads of Western China and returns this year to discuss her newest technique: infrared photography, which she says, "adds a different dimension to the photography." These photographs are part of an exhibition called “Invisible Light: The World in Infrared”that can be seen at Mélange.