Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer, curator, and environmental humanities scholar whose work centers on Arctic landscapes, Indigenous rights, and ecological justice. Born in 1967 in rural Bengal, he began his career in engineering and scientific research before pivoting in 2000 toward photography. His signature project, a fourteen-month journey across the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, resulted in the book Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land (2003), accompanied by widely circulated exhibitions that brought national attention to Indigenous land rights and oil development controversies.

Since then, Banerjee has produced award-winning photography and advocacy, working with Gwich’in and Iñupiat communities and editing critical volumes such as Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point (2012). His field-based research at the University of New Mexico encompasses biodiversity, climate impact, and multispecies kinship across Arctic, desert, and mangrove ecologies. His photographs have appeared in more than fifty museums internationally, and he continues to lecture widely on the intersections of art, activism, and environmental justice.