Jonathan Taggart is a founder of the Boreal Collective of Canadian Documentary Photographers and a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His documentary work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in Canadian Geographic, BC Business, the Tyee, and other publications. He has taught photography at Royal Roads and Emily Carr universities, has coordinated film-based research projects for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and works regularly on community planning and heritage conservation projects with remote First Nations in British Columbia.