Photography Installation: Remembering the Future: Nuclear Testing, Rising Seas, and The Marshall Islands

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At Giannini Hall, 36 photographs selected from the recently published Remembering the Future: Nuclear Testing, Rising Seas, and The Marshall Islands (Radius Books, © 2026) by Mark Klett and William L. Fox extend the two men's decades-long collaboration tracing the nuclear history of the American West and the broader Pacific sphere. Installed along the building's main hallway, the images move between the physical remains of nuclear testing—bunkers, craters, camera towers reclaimed by jungle—and the everyday textures of Marshallese life: canoe building, weaving, seawalls raised by hand. Paired with archival images from the testing era and drawn from Fox's field notes and essays, the photo essay holds both histories at once: the violence of nuclear history, and the resilience of a culture that continues to inhabit these islands. An artist and curator-led tour with Mark Klett and William L. Fox will take place on September 23 at 4 PM. —Mark Klett is a photographer interested in the intersection of places, history and time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and published widely in the United States and internationally, and is held in over eighty museum collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of twenty books. Klett is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University where he taught for forty years. —Presented by the UC Berkeley Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative in partnership with the Rausser College of Natural Resources.The Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here expedition was organized by Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner, Michael Light, and David Buckland, and supported by Stellar Blue Fund and Cape Farewell. Special thanks to independent curators of UC Berkeley Kōmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here exhibitions Amy Kisch and Svea Lin Soll. Kõmij Mour Ijin / Our Life Is Here at UC Berkeley is made possible with support from the Stellar Blue Fund, Cape Farewell, and the Kramlich Art Foundation. —Image Credit: "The concrete bunker destroyed by the 15-megaton Bravo explosion"2023. Mounted archival digital print, 36 x 48 inches each. Titles and dates as published in Remembering the Future. Courtesy of the artist.