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Ignacio Acosta is an artist and researcher who works with photography and video in territories under pressure from extractive industries. His multilayered collaborative practice and spatial installations seek to connect audiences with these complex but critical concerns. Acosta is a postdoctoral researcher at Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR), Uppsala University, where he leads the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS)-funded project Indigenous Perspectives on Forest Fires, Drought, and Climate Change: Sápmi developed in collaboration with Sámi journalist Liz-Marie Nilsen and Sámi scholar May-Britt Öhman. He is also a research associate at the Royal College of Arts, London, as part of Frozen Future, a collaborative arts research project with Louise Purbrick and Xavier Ribas (Traces of Nitrate) and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).