Meet the 2025 Photographers
Who Is Covering the 2025 GIA Conference
We are pleased to have Jaida Grey Eagle and bearBOI photographing this year’s conference. We hope you check out the 2025 Conference Blog and photolibrary for their coverage throughout the week!
Learn more about each blogger below.
Jaida Grey Eagle
Photo courtesy of Jaida Grey Eagle
Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota freelance documentary photographer currently located in St. Paul, MN. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.
Jaida served as a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal as a photojournalist and won several awards during her time as a fellow, including MN Society of Professional Journalists Best News Photography in 2022 and 2023. Jaida is a co-producer on the Sisters Rising Documentary, which is the story of six Native American women reclaiming personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing sexual violence against Indigenous women in the United States, and has recently received an Honorable Mention at the Big Sky Doc Festival. In 2019, Jaida joined the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) Native American Fellow and co-curated the native photography show titled “In Our Hands”.
She holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts, emphasizing Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
bearBOI
Photo courtesy of bearBOI
bearBOI is a Black Trans portrait photographer and visual archivist from Maryland. Predominantly, his work celebrates the beauty and truth of the underrepresented with an intention to empower communities to take up space, be seen and be heard through visual storytelling. Bearboi is head of media at Voguedown Mpls and co-runs BOI TOY
Photo and Production studio based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
