FALL 2024
THE TIME ISSUE
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NICO GLAUDE Sudbury, ON No time like the.... “An installation dealing with time and nostalgia that I leave behind once photographed to fade away and decay due to weather and time.” IG: @nicoglaude
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RESOURCES WE LOVE
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SCARBOROUGH MADE: COMMUNITY STORYTELLING by Sid Naidu
SYLVIA GALBRAITH: WHAT TIME IS THIS PLACE? An interview by Rita Godlevskis
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FOUR SEASONS: PHOTO PHENOLOGY A poetry inspired collection from our creative community
WADE COMER: LAYERED TIME by Cece M. Scott
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ARIANNE CLÉMENT: AGING, BEAUTIFULLY by Alan Bulley
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BRET CULP: SOLARGRAPHY AND THE BEAUTY OF IMPERMANENCE
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JUNE CLARK AND CHRISTINA LESLIE: HISTORY, MEMORY, SUGAR, RUST. In conversation with Craig D’Arville
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ZINNIA NAQVI: TIME AFTER TIME by Darren Pottie
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THE GALLERY Submissions by our readers
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PORTFOLIO Featuring: Daphne Faye Boxill, Elsa Hashemi, Lucy Lu, Farah Al Amin, Julianna D’Intino, Elizabeth Siegfried, and Catherine Page
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THE MOUNTAIN LEGACY PROJECT: FOLLOWING FOOTSTEPS FROM THE PAST by Cassandra Spires
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EDITOR’S NOTE
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DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” — Dorothea Lange
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WHEN PHOTOGRAPHS WERE A NEW INVENTION viewers took them at face value. Today’s astute audiences must analyze images, questioning context, intent, and timeline to draw conclusions, all in a matter of seconds. This analysis may not be accurate, but often it’s all we have time for before moving along to the next image presented in front of us.
The artists in this edition have produced time-bending works that ask viewers for more. The payoff is not only a visual reward, but also the gift of an idea when considering one’s own future recordings. Sylvia Galbraith records room-size camera obscura images with such clarity; her work is a time-blending puzzle. Bret Culp uses the same tool, a pinhole camera, to create a single image recording: the passage of time over days, weeks, and months. Zinnia Naqvi’s art practice embraces 1980s images from her family albums to question colonial influence and (re)present her experience to new audiences — perhaps relating to viewers’ own experiences and influencing recollections of whatever a “Canadian experience” means to them.
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I’m especially excited to present an interview by Craig D’Arville featuring June Clark and Christina Leslie. These artists’ works are thoughtfully crafted and loaded with immeasurable layers of history, family, love, struggle, and contemplation in every visual they thoughtfully present. I hope you can afford to make the time for these works, ideas, and more. Looking ahead, our Winter 2024 edition will celebrate COLOUR and photography. Not only are colours some of the most fun and joyful elements to explore in photography, but they can also hold incredible significance as nostalgic triggers and symbols for social change. If your work helps viewers see colour in a new, significant way, find out more about making a submission on our website. Follow us on Instagram, Patreon, and Facebook, and sign up for our e-newsletter to keep up with all of our adventures!
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SCARBOROUGH MADE: CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF COMMUNITY STORYTELLING BY SID NAIDU SCARBOROUGH MADE (SM) IS A SOCIAL IMPACT ORGANIZATION that champions documentary storytelling through photography and filmmaking in Toronto’s East. Co-founded by Alex Narvaez and Sid Naidu in 2019, the collective aims to shift how underserved communities are portrayed in the media and support BIPOC youth artists in pursuing careers in the creative industries.
As professional artists, Alex and Sid have produced storytelling and community-building projects both locally and internationally for over ten years, working with large brands, non-profit organizations, and government institutions to champion storytelling around culture and change. Their kinship and bond over their common experiences of growing up in Scarborough sparked an interest in contributing to their community as artists. They saw an opportunity to use their storytelling skills to highlight local people, places, and cultures by creating SM. TOP: A series of portraits from the first set of stories produced for Scarborough Made (SM) in 2019. ABOVE: The SM - Resilience public art installation at Toronto Public Library’s Cedarbrae Branch in 2021. INSET: SM founders Sid Naidu + Alex Narvaez.
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BEACH BLISS BILLED AS THE WORLD’S GREATEST PHOTO GAME, GuruShots is an international competition platform for photographers. Players get feedback from more than three billion monthly voters and try to work their way up through rankings, from Newbie to the ultimate status (and bragging rights) of Guru.
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3. MICAH KLEIN Newmarket, ON RECLAIMED BY NATURE kleinbayphotography.photoshelter.com IG: @kleinbayphotography
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“THEY PAVED PARADISE, PUT UP A PARKING LOT.”
A VIEW TOWARD THE ATHABASCA GLACIER LEFT: R.C. McDonald, 1938, Stn. 40, 31 E, The Mountain Legacy Project & Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada.
– JONI MITCHELL
RIGHT: Mountain Legacy Project Field Team, Stn. 40, July 9th, 2024.
BY CASSANDRA SPIRES
The Mountain Legacy Project is a collection of some of the most urgent and compelling photographic representations of time. Directed by Eric Higgs and founded by Higgs and Jeanine Rhemtulla, the project’s mandate is to “explore changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes over time through photographic comparisons.” The project is home to a collection of over 120 000 historical mountain photographs from nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury systematic surveys, 20 000 of which are available online, as well as over 10 000 new comparative photographs. Participants both care for the archival collection and build on it, revisiting the coordinates of historical images to create new comparison images. While the project’s primary contributors are graduate students, members also include research assistants, external contractors, and volunteers. Katelyn Fryer, the project’s archivist and librarian who assisted with this article, began as a research assistant. The work has many aims, but a core aim is to document the effects of climate change and to make the findings as widely accessible as possible. The website features a tool called Explorer, which enables users to peruse the collection using an interactive map that spans Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. A map is populated by clickable “stations,” which are the sites of the
This feature was produced with the support of the Photographic Historical Society of Canada. www.phsc.ca
photographic pairs in the collection. Browsing through the stations, users will find stark visual contrasts between the historical mountain photographs and their contemporary counterparts. Recently, the field team had the opportunity to re-photograph the Athabasca Glacier, located at Station 40. A photograph by R.C. McDonald in 1938, more than 85 years ago, clearly demonstrates the marked change. Ten years ago, Bill Graveland wrote an article titled “Athabasca glacier melting at ‘astonishing’ rate of more than five metres a year,” which posited that the glacier may disappear completely within a generation. This visual comparison provides alarming evidence of the rapid recession. Looking forward, members of the Mountain Legacy Project, currently based at the University of Victoria, are working to rephotograph early twentieth-century images of Jasper National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park through partnership with the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. Mountain Legacy Project also works in close partnership with Library Archives Canada to digitize and care for the collection. The Mountain Legacy Project, founded in 1998, continues to grow and build on its body of work, creating visual comparisons both powerful and alarming that serve as a call to action for the viewer.
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Lee Miller, Pidoux Hats [with original markings, Vogue Studio, London, England], 1939, chromogenic print (printed 2023) © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024
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