Keri Pickett

[1] Pickett was first exposed to photography as a child through her figure-skater/photographer uncle Roy Blakey and years later, as an adult, she made a film about his life.

She also trained her camera on the bar Tin Pan Alley, where punks, sex workers and artists, like employees Kiki Smith and Nan Goldin, all hung out.

"[6] In 1987, after Pickett was diagnosed with Burkett's lymphoma, a rare cancer characterized by the rapid growth of tumors in the body, she left New York and returned to Minnesota to begin chemotherapy.

Begun in 1994, the project was shot over six years at an annual ten-day meeting in the northern Minnesota sanctuary called Kawashaway.

[10] Pickett's third book published in 2004, Saving Body & Soul: The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland uses her photography paired with essays and writings by Margaret Nelson to illuminate the story of Mary Jo Copeland, a housewife and mother of twelve who has overcome remarkable odds in her quest to serve the poor and homeless.

[15] The Fabulous Ice Age is a documentary about the history of theatrical figure skating highlighting entertainers such as Sonja Henie and Gloria Nord, featuring Pickett's uncle Roy Blakey - a former ice-skater, turned photographer.

[17] In 2016, the Walker Art Center screened portions of Pickett's second full-length documentary First Daughter and the Black Snake (IMDb)[18] chronicling the opposition of Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabe activist, to plans to route a pipeline through land granted to her tribe in 1855.

Mikkelson and Pickett made the decision to film HERbeat in a cinéma vérité style, meaning there will be no sit-down interviews, just authentic footage showing the women and their journey.

In 2021, Pickett directed the music video for the song ‘No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong)’ featuring Bonnie Raitt, the Indigo Girls, Winona LaDuke, the first Native American poet laureate Joy Harjo, Waubanewquay, Day Sisters, Mumu Fresh, Pura Fe, Soni Moreno, and Jennifer Kreisberg, produced and composed by Larry Long.

[4] Mary Ellen Mark, American photojournalist says "Keri Pickett's deeply moving photographs are a passionate statement of her devotion...

"[26] Michael Fallon, writer for the Minneapolis City Pages says "Pickett's photographs in general are almost a kind of performance art--a ritual act of conjuring up the greater truth that lies in wait like a serpent beneath the surface.