Benjamin Haldane

Benjamin Alfred Haldane (June 15, 1874 – November 21, 1941) was a Tsimshian professional photographer from Metlakatla, Alaska.

He was a full-blood member of the Tsimshian tribe, a First Nations people spanning British Columbia and Alaska.

[2] At the age of 13, Haldane migrated to the village of Metlakatla, Alaska, located on Annette Island, along with 800 other Tsimshian people.

They made the 30-mile journey by canoe, seeking secure land rights and religious freedom with the missionary William Duncan.

For 38 years, he was the organist and choir master at the William Duncan Memorial Church and led the Metlakatla Concert Band.

This revived interest in his work was sparked by Dennis Dunne, who rescued 162 original glass plate negatives of Haldane's photographs from the dump on Annette Island in the 1990s.