Our beloved friend, George Webber, was interviewed on The Long Road Home with Yamuna Flaherty, a podcast that highlights storykeepers and the lifelong practice of coming home to yourself. In a deeply personal conversation, Yamuna sits down with George to discuss his almost five decades spent photographing the people, landscapes, small towns, and quiet corners of Alberta and the Canadian Prairies.
George Webber has always been a natural storyteller through his images that convey deep meaning and unrestrained moments. Drawing from his childhood in Drumheller, hunting for dinosaur bones with his grandfather, to his decades-long relationships with Hutterite communities, farmers, immigrants, and people living on the margins, his photographs reveal a profound tenderness toward the ordinary lives unfolding around him.
In his podcast interview, A Lifetime of Witnessing Light, with Yamuna Flaherty, they explore what happens when photography becomes more than documentation, but rather a transcendence into an act of listening, witnessing, and service. They discuss the intimacy required to photograph another person, the responsibility of preserving stories and changing landscapes, and how a lifetime of affection for one’s “little postage stamp of native soil” can become an archive for generations to come.
