With summer coming quickly to a close and labour day having skipped by we find ourselves at the beginning of the school year. As children march back to the daily grind parents, teachers and yes even politicians swarm over issues effecting the education system. In the U.S. controversy built this week around a speech President [...]
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This is a collection of photographs from prison archives, because these images have been preserved along with their index cards detailed information about each prisoner is accessible such as previous criminal history, current charge and sentence. Even beyond their criminal activity these documents give such personal information as occupation and place of residence, information that [...]
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With the American elections behind us months of campaign trail coverage has been replaced by a fixation on something else, a White House dynasty in the making. The Obama craze that swept the U.S quickly spilled over international borders, leaching heavily into the soil of my own country, Canada. This marks a massive shift in [...]
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Spirit photography emerged out of the belief in a connection between this life and the next and the idea that some people can bridge the gap between these states of existence. In the 1860’s William H. Mumler, a jewel engraver and armature photographer, claimed to have found images of ghosts in some of his photos. [...]
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In the mid to late 1800′s photographic technology progressed to became increasingly versatile. Photographers were able to capture images in diverse settings as it became possible to leave the portrait studio and document real life. I have collected some photographs of families taken between the late 1800′s and early 1900′s. These photographs offer a very [...]
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So far in this blog I have paid tribute to a variety of subjects, using images to discuss history and society. These posts have used photographs as the jumping off point to look at the world, past and present. I would like to focus today on the process that makes this perception of our surroundings [...]
