NWT artist selected over hundreds across North America for Pow Wow Pitch

Model Summer Desjarlais | Photographer Jamie Wetrade-Stevenson

Jamie Wetrade-Stevenson, is a talented photographer who has turned her passion for photography into a thriving business. The artist was recently selected among hundreds of applicants across Turtle Island (North America) to take part in a grassroots initiative and competition known as the Pow Wow Pitch, and is the sole entrepreneur from N.W.T. selected within the Creative group category. 

Stevenson told True North FM that photography is about connection and community.

“What initially inspired me to start doing photography was literally the fact that nobody else in my community was doing this. And so, it definitely felt very different and exciting and I personally I come from a family of artists, so I found that creativity was always around me, but when I picked up the camera for the first time at 14 years old, something just kind of clicked for me. And it definitely felt like it was a medium I was meant to express myself through, which was really something cool to be so young and to to find something that you’re so passionate about at such a young age,” reflected Stevenson.