Jared Wahkinney is a photographer and director based in Oklahoma City and a member of the Comanche Nation. Originally from Lawton, Oklahoma, Jared’s work centers on Indigenous storytelling, environmental justice, and large landscape conservation. He focuses on how people and places shape one another, and how memory and culture guide a sense of belonging. Jared documents community spaces and wide landscapes where ecological knowledge meets lived experience. His films and photographs follow the everyday and ceremonial moments where Indigenous joy becomes visible and where land stewardship reflects generations of care. His approach draws from his background in anthropology and Native American Studies, including a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. His research explored Comanche food attitudes and place memory, questions that continue to inform his work. Through his work with the National Park Service, he supported tribal communities in conservation and outdoor recreation planning, helping connect community priorities with the places that hold meaning for them. His documentary project, Peyote People, follows relationships among ceremony, land, and access to peyote. The work considers what it means to care for a spiritual relationship when access to the plant and the places that sustain it becomes uncertain. His feature documentary project received support through the Fujifilm GFX Challenge Grant Program and was exhibited in Tokyo. He collaborates with tribal nations, conservation partners, and local communities to create work that honors complexity and supports shared decision-making. His goal is to build stories that deepen understanding,