Marty Clemens

Marty Clemens is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Smithers, BC. He’s passionate about creating visuals that feel genuine and tell a story, blending authentic moments with a fine art touch. Marty loves collaborating with other professionals and is always excited to explore new, creative projects that inspire and challenge him. See more of Marty’s work at martyclemens.com.

Stories by Marty Clemens

A very large flame burns over a tower-like industrial structure

‘How do we correct this?’ Kitimat residents seek solutions to LNG Canada flaring fiasco

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Jan. 28, 2026 7 min. read

For some locals from the northwest B.C. town, confirmation that LNG Canada burned more gas...

An ominous orange glow looms in the sky behind a nighttime scene in Kitimat, B.C.

‘Flare height will vary’: LNG Canada lights up the night sky in Kitimat, B.C.

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Nov. 14, 2025 3 min. read

Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled his support for LNG exports in Terrace, B.C., this week,...

Kitimat, B.C.

B.C. town ‘built by industry’ adjusts to life with LNG

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

July 16, 2025 8 min. read

A 90-metre flare lit the skies over Kitimat as LNG Canada readied its systems in...

BC Wildfire Service firefighter standing in the smoking forest

Life in the time of wildfire

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Jan. 11, 2025 27 min. read

Wildfires are reshaping life on the planet. The choices we make now — how we...

Farmer with pig

‘Treat the land right’: B.C. farmers search for solutions as another year of drought looms

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

May 4, 2024 10 min. read

Across Western Canada, another year of extreme drought threatens local and regional food security. Regenerative...

An orphaned black bear cub favours her injured front leg at a rehabilitation centre in Smithers, B.C.

See where 120 orphaned baby bears take shelter as B.C. wildfires and drought shrink their habitat

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Feb. 15, 2024 13 min. read

As climate impacts increasingly drive bears into communities, many cubs are left alone and starving....

A youth from Wilps Ni'isjoohl lays cedar boughs beside a Nisga'a pole that was rematriated nearly a century after it was stolen

‘Welcome home, dear ancestor’: after nearly a century, a stolen totem pole returns to the Nisg̱a’a Nation

By Cara McKenna, Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Oct. 17, 2023 18 min. read

The long-awaited rematriation of the pts'aan offers a template for the return of Indigenous belongings

LNG Canada at night

Life in a northern B.C. boomtown

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

June 23, 2023 19 min. read

Settled in the 1950s to support an aluminum smelter, Kitimat is no stranger to industrial...

Farmer Adrienne Dickson on her Topley, B.C. farm

After her farm flooded, this B.C. farmer went looking for solutions

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

Oct. 18, 2022 13 min. read

An unlikely group from northwest B.C. is working together to restore the heavily impacted Upper...

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