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About al-Khemedia Studios

al-Khemedia Studios is the official home of photographs by Tyler Kuhn.

al-Khemedia Studios unofficially came into being during the summer of 2002. In association with Monolith Productions, owner operators Jim Coates and Tyler Kuhn began a directed marketing campaign in the Yukon. They hoped to promote the Yukon to the "extreme sports" community. The Yukon Extreme project included creating a website, web videos, local product TV spots, and a full length extreme sports video. Sadly, a lack of funding and a serious car accident ended this project prematurely.

al-Khemedia Studios became an official company in the summer of 2004.


About Tyler Kuhn

Tyler was born and raised in the Yukon, in a very outdoor orientated family.

In 1998, he left the Yukon to persue further schooling. The University of Victoria provided the ideal climate for schooling, and more importantly distractions from that schooling. While in first year, he discovered photography, mainly as a reason to do larger and stupider things on his bike.

With minor disctractions like two trips to Peru and Ecuador, he graduated in 2004 with a B.Sc. Honours in Earth Science and Biology (focusing on Paleontology).

At UVic, Tyler also met a fellow Yukoner, one he had not met in the Yukon, Amber Church. They have since had countless adventures together, starting with a surfing trip in Tofino, and most have most recently returned from three months in the Southern Hemisphere (stretching from Antarctica to New Zealand). Amber and Tyler were married in August 2007.

Tyler is currently heavily involved with the International Polar Year (IPY) and APECS (the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists).

Tyler is also currently working on Masters degree in the FAB* Lab at Simon Fraser Univeristy extracting ancient DNA from Ice Age Caribou fossils from the Yukon, Alaska and Siberia. He has just completed 3 months of lab work at the University of Oxford's Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre.


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