https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/international-rugby-experience-limerick-niall-mclaughlin/
Vid Ingelvics and I recently had the opportunity (and pleasure) of accessing and photographing some of Toronto’s largest and most significant development projects. Thanks to Cristian Ordonez and Elizabeth Pagliacolo for the wonderful opportunity.
Honoured to also have the cover on the magazine’s 300th Issue!
Last month I had the pleasure of spending some time with Canadian sculptor Michael Belmore for Vie des Art magazine. Belmore’s work and processes speak about the environment, about land, about water, and what it is to be Anishinaabe.
TONIGHT I will be joining @burleyrobert @tophotolaureate @blakefitzpatrick9 @artinfact_0052 for a discussion about photography, urban green spaces and society’s relationship between the city and nature. Bob Burley will talk about his new book, "Accidental Wilderness" exploring Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park. Vid Inglevics and I will be sharing new work from our project documenting the radical transformation of Toronto's Port Lands.
Registration is apparently already over 300 folks or so, so sign up soon if you’d like to join us!
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Wednesday April 7
5:30-6:30 PM
Register on Eventbrite (link in bio):
https://www.eventbrite.ca/.../natures-image-in-the-city...
#torontowaterfront #portlandstoronto #floodprotection #ecology #earthworks #documentary
I am excited to be giving a talk on the We Are Public platform (based in the Netherlands), which focuses on showcasing the arts to audiences in the Netherlands and across Europe - and now virtually.
Here is the link for the event: https://meet.jit.si/NoManIsAnIsland|ArtistTalkRyanWalker
And password: weloveryan
I’m excited to announce that 'No Man is an Island' has been recognized by The Narrative Journalism Foundation in the Netherlands with a Master Storytellers Award for 2020. This story was made in support with a @dockinstationtoday residency in the summer of 2020, and would not have been possible without Emmie Kallau and Imre Ploeg for their amazing work and collaboration on the audio piece.
A short virtual talk will be part of the awards programming at (8PM CET) on March 10th (most of which will be in Dutch). Link HERE.
Since July 2020 I’ve been working alongside many wonderful folks from the Netherlands to further develop my Voices in the Wilderness series.
I was one of several photographers selected to participate in a wonderfully formative and intensive artist residency with Docking Station in Amsterdam. But unfortunately due to Covid-19, travelling to the Netherlands for a month this summer wasn’t feasible. Although I couldn’t attend the residency in person, new opportunities presented themselves in the form of a digital collaboration.
After my third visit to a magical off-grid island in the Salish Sea, I met Laurence and Kathy - two incredibly kind and welcoming hippies who started a life together on the island during the 1970’s back-to-the-land movement. Over the years, they always had a free bed and a warm meal waiting for me each time I returned to the island. After dinner we would chat for hours as the view of the wood stove window moved from flickering flames to a beautiful red ember glow. Early on, I learned of Laurence’s fascinating childhood and tumultuous relationship with the island. His story inspired the most recent, and undoubtedly most intimate, iteration of this six-year-long series.
Today is the premiere of No Man is an Island, an audio-visual story that follows Laurence during the hour it takes for the island ferry to travel to the mainland. There, he reflects on the fragility of his life and the lessons he’s learned from living on the island for over 55 years. The important choices Laurence made in his life show not only his courageous character, but also universal values of life, death, love and self-actualization.
First and foremost I want to thank Laurence and Kathy for allowing us into their lives.
@dockingstationtoday @missie_lopez @marga_rotteveel for their amazing support and guidance through the residency process. Emmie Kollau of @aldusproducties for her incredible writing and producing of the audio piece. Imre Ploeg @ploegimre for the hauntingly beautiful musical and sound compositions.
Now available in the new online magazine Far Away – Up Close.
www.farawayupclose.nl
Another iteration of ‘Voices In the Wilderness’ (inspired from elements of the book dummy I created back in July) this time being shown at Space Place Gallery in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
Nature Is Our Path
As we recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day, I am proud to share this short film I worked on last summer for GoRVing Canada as the Director of Photography and Editor - all shot in the incredibly majestic Yukon.
Thank you to @ashleycallingbull of Alberta's Enoch Cree Nation for sharing parts of your cultural heritage with us, as well as @kyriakos_photo of Projector for bringing me on board to help create this spot. Thanks to the crew who helped make it all possible: @taliawo @enbonet @clintonhomuth. It has always been a dream of mine to visit the Yukon and experience its wild, rugged beauty.
Back in July 2019 I was commissioned with Vid Ingelevics to photograph and interpret the massive transformation of Toronto’s Port Lands. Toronto’s Photo Laureate, Michèle Pearson Clarke wrote a wonderful piece about our long term commission in last week’s Toronto Star.
Happy to have another image included in the latest instalment of @enroutemag ‘s 24 hour collaborative photo essay. Despite necessary isolation, artists continue to come together to create a sense of connectedness through their personal stories. https://enroute.aircanada.com/en/travel-inspiration/24-more-hours-photo/
11:32 P.M. // Toronto
#isolatedbutnotdisconnected #enRoute #24HoursAroundTheWorld
On March 26, nearly 50 photographers from all corners of the world captured a single fleeting moment. I was fortunate to be invited by enRoute magazine to participate in the 24 hour collaborative photo essay. Despite necessary isolation, artists continue to come together to create a sense of connectedness through their personal stories.
https://enroute.aircanada.com/.../24-hours-around-the-world
10:01 A.M. // Toronto
#isolatedbutnotdisconnected #enRoute #24HoursAroundTheWorld
Last month I had the pleasure of participating in a photo book workshop with dutch designers Teun van der Heijden and Sandra van der Doelen (of Heijdens Karwai) in Jakarta Indonesia. Internationally recognized, Teun and Sandra have collaborated in designing numerous award-winning photo books, including Black Passport by Stanley Greene, War Sand by Donald Weber and Diamond Matters by Kadir van Lohuizen. The duo has also been teaching photo book workshops all over the world.
Over the course of a week we explored the photobook medium; from paper selection to photo sequencing, design and final production. I came to Teun with hundreds of images from my Voices in the Wilderness series with a rough edit and narrative in mind. Teun is not just a designer, but a master editor focused on visual language, which became very beneficial in the book making process. He brought a new language to the project with his own perspective and input on the edit and sequence. This process was very much a collaboration and not just one of us dictating the structure.
It was a highly intensive and very productive week. Seeing the work evolve and transform into a polished book dummy was extremely rewarding. See the video below for the final product.
Several images from ‘Voices In the Wilderness’ were selected for this year’s edition of the Helsinki Photo Fest in Helsinki Finland, which was focused on the theme of Anarchy. The show runs from August to late September.
Grateful to have had the opportunity to show ‘Voices In the Wilderness' at the 2019 Edition of Cortona on the Move in Cortona Italy. It was so great to travel to Italy for the festival and exhibition opening, while meeting many incredible photographers, editors and curators from across Europe and North America. It was really inspiring to such incredible work spread across numerous venues - all very unique to the work being shown in them - in the beautiful hill top town of Cortona. After a number of meetings with international editors and curators, I received some thoughtful feedback on not only the exhibition, but also the book dummy I had produced the week prior with Teun van der Heijden. Giving me a lot to think about moving forward with the project!
Last week, D Repubblica (@drepubblicait) - Italy’s national weekly magazine published an image from ‘Voices In the Wilderness’ that was featured during the Cortona on the Move festival. A nice and very welcome surprise Glad to be published alongside the great work of @rigamonti.marco @gideonmendel @paoloverzone @nannaheitmann & Lara Shipley.
This summer’s issue of Maisonneuve Magazine is very timely as it explores our current climate situation. Happy to share “Voices in the Wilderness” as a part of this important dialogue. In wonderful visual company with Laurence Butet-Roch, Michel Huneault and Isabelle Hayeur Thanks to Brian Morgan for including the work.
On Canadian newsstands TODAY.
https://maisonneuve.org/article/2019/06/20/voices-wilderness/
Grateful to be part of the top 100 for Magenta Foundation ‘s Flash Forward selection with some new work. More urgently than ever, we face questions about how we exist on earth, what we give to it—and what we expect from it. This is an ongoing visual exploration of our place in the world.
Excited to be showing ‘Voices in the Wilderness’ alongside Italian Photographer @rigamonti.marco at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. Show is on until the end of August.
Some work featured today on Don't Take Pictures.
Editors' Pick on Booooooom.com from back in April.
