Dawna Mueller is a Métis Canadian/Swiss photographer with a place-based large format practice creating black and white images of natural landscapes that represent her desire to connect us back to our relationship with nature.

Recently, Dawna has been researching her ancestry upon discovering her Indigenous roots. As a child of the ‘60’s Scoop’ in Canada she was taken from her Métis mother at birth and adopted into a Ukrainian family.  Her current photographic practice evidences her reclamation journey in her combination of large format negatives and unique printing methods.

Dawna was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is Red River Métis and Duck Bay Anishinaabe. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and a JD Law Degree from the Allard Hall School of Law at UBC. Additionally, Dawna studied Art and History at the University of Paris – Sorbonne, and has a Diploma in Photography from Cap Fotoschule in Switzerland. In 2018, she trained as a Climate Reality Leader with Al Gore at the Climate Reality Project. Dawna is currently studying for a Master’s Degree of Photography at Falmouth University in the United Kingdom.

Dawna has exhibited her work internationally and her photographs are part of permanent and private collections worldwide, including Allard School of Law at UBC.