Ben Huff’s Atomic Island Virtual Exhibit Now Online

Ben Huff’s exhibition, Atomic Island, will be available online starting on February 4th 2022 at 4:30pm at

https://lam.alaska.gov/atomic-island

Take a virtual walk-through the exhibit and watch Ben’s lecture from the opening night of his exhibit at the Alaska State Museum on November 5, 2021.

Ben Huff’s new work, Atomic Island, is a contemporary portrait of the largely abandoned Cold War outpost of Adak. The island, instrumental in the disruption of a mainland advance during WWII, and later as a nuclear submarine surveillance post, was abandoned by the Navy in 1997. At its height, the island housed over 6,000 people, today less than 75 call Adak home. Huff uses his own large format color photographs, mixed with archival images from the State Archives, to show the past and present of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.