Somewhere outside of your ordinary, with people you’ve just met. In a place you thought you knew, it becomes more than you ever expected. You can just be you, and that’s all you need to be, and no matter what, you always fit in.

Blaire Russell, artist and photographer, from the Blood Tribe, Kainai First Nation in southern Alberta shares the unique influence that his culture and home have on his art. Just one story of the powerful First Nations influence woven into the province’s way of life.