Carquinez Strait, CA — Desirae Harp (Mishewal OnastaTis Nation) holds up a wooden salmon figurine as the Run4Salmon crosses over the Benicia-Martinez Bridge. September 17, 2018. Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge
Vallejo, CA — Helene Sisk, Winnemem Wintu song leader, (center, eyes closed) and other Winnemem Wintu women sing as part of the Run4Salmon opening ceremony at Sogorea Te’, a former indigenous village site. September 9, 2017. Tom Levy/The Spiritual EdgeVallejo, CA — Winnemem Wintu Michael Preston dances before the sacred fire as part of the Run4Salmon opening ceremony at Sogorea Te', a former indigenous village site. September 9, 2017. Tom Levy/The Spiritual EdgeCarquinez Strait, CA — Desirae Harp (Mishewal OnastaTis Nation) holds up a wooden salmon figurine as the Run4Salmon crosses over the Benicia-Martinez Bridge. September 17, 2018. Tom Levy/The Spiritual Edge

A Prayer For Salmon

PROJECT Ten photographs from five years of reporting on the Winnemem Wintu, a Native tribe in Shasta County, California. The Winnemem Wintu struggle to maintain their spiritual practices amid ongoing conflicts with governmental authorities over water, land, salmon and Shasta Dam. A Prayer For Salmon is an 11-chapter podcast series originally broadcast in 2023 on…

Listen to the Trees

PROJECT — Gallery Exhibition “Listen to the Trees” is an ongoing series of personal photographs I began in 2012. This series of images was printed for a gallery exhibition that opened in March 2020. I mostly encountered these trees — redwoods, oaks, laurels and other species — during regular walks in the eastern hills of Oakland,…

Project Open Hand

PROJECT Fund-raising brochure • Photograph at left, of Doris and Jared, also appeared in a Communication Arts photography annual. CLIENT Project Open Hand, a San Francisco nonprofit providing meals to seniors and to people with AIDS. • Design firm: Cahan & Associates • Art Director/Designer: Jessie McAnulty

Passover in the Desert

PROJECT Photography of Wilderness Torah‘s 2014 Passover in the Desert, a multi-day festival of Earth-based Judaism held in the Panamint Valley of California’s Mojave Desert. Photographs featured on the Berkeley-based organization’s website, Facebook site and in post-event emails to participants. A 12-minute public radio piece by Judy Silber, “Bay Area Jews quench spiritual thirst in…