Wizard and Viper © Linda Dawn Hammond 1990
L."Wizard" and R."Viper" aka photographer Linda Dawn Hammond - the name Wizard bestowed upon me...
Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '90
"Wizard", one of the warriors, named me "Viper" after I had words with an aggressive Macleans writer in No-Man's land, which continued past the Mohawk barricade as that journalist attempted to plant an idea with the Warriors that I was an SQ agent, AS IF!! It later turned out that the SQ had made an error when they issued my press pass, which at that moment I was unaware of. I had asked 3 media I'd previously worked for as a freelance photographer- Macleans, NOW magazine and the Suburban, for accreditation. The latter was actually the one which came though for me, but the SQ had erroneously printed Macleans on my emergency measures pass, which of course I was happy about as I would actually get paid! The Macleans journalist said I didn't work for Macleans (though I'd shot an event at the film festival for them that week), he'd never seen me before. Well, I told him I'd never seen him before either. He then tried to order me, "You're not going ahead. You're not going back... you're staying here!", essentially trying to condemn me to the purgatory of No-Man's Land? I thought he was crazy, and said I would confirm with the SQ when I passed by their office later (miles out of town), but he wouldn't accept that. So I told him to fuck off. Someone tried to warn me to be careful of the journalist, telling me he's prone to violence. "Yeah, wouldn't want to hurt him!" I said as I brushed pass and crossed the Mohawk line. He ran after me and said, "She isn't who she says she is. For all I know, she works for the SQ!" He could have got me shot, as the youngest Warrior, age 15, was unnerved, his hand shaking as he held his weapon. "Do you think she is?" he asked the older Warriors. I managed to defuse the situation, addressing the Warrior who appeared to be most in charge, which was Wizard, pointing out, "Look at me, and now look at HIM, and you tell me who is more likely to be SQ?! The journalist then started to question the Mohawk warriors' authority to make that decision, on THEIR side of the barricade, at which point he lost all credibility. "Viper" was a definite compliment, as Wizard's exact words later were. " When I saw you behind the barricade, I said to myself, "This woman would probably make a good warrior. I name you Viper!" My dad, when I told him, said "I suppose you're proud of yourself?" and I replied with an emphatic, "YEP!"
Photographs and text by Linda Dawn Hammond
Behind The Barricades: OKA
BOOKS
2015 "HerStory 2015", (Coteau Books, Saskatoon Women’s Calendar Collective). Photo of Jenny Jacks, First Nations activist at Oka, from “Behind the Barricades” series.
2010 "Incident at Oka" (D&M Publishers), 1 photograph from Behind the Barricades: OKA " Jenny Jacks", Author: Harry Swain
2001 The Women's Daybook 2002, 'Women and Food' (Sumach Press), 1 Photograph and text by Linda Dawn Hammond: Behind The Barricades: OKA
1994 Semiotext(e) canadas (Columbia University Press)
Back cover Photograph and 3 within by Linda Dawn Hammond: Behind The Barricades: OKA
1991 The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French
Postmodern (New World Perspectives)
Author: Arthur Kroker
Photography by Linda Dawn Hammond: 2 from Three Part Bodyseries , 4 photographs from Behind the Barricades: OKA
www.scribd.com/doc/7426491/The-Possessed-Individual
EXHIBITIONS
May, 2017
Collège La Cite à Toronto
Exhibit and auction for MSF
Photos Sans Frontières
Solo exhibit entitled,
Derrière les barricades: OKA- Behind the Barricades: OKA,
6 photographs on exhibit, 3 additional in auction for MSF
June - Aug 2005
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Group exhibit entitled, The American West
Behind the Barricades: OKA, 6 photographs,
REVIEW
www.birminghampost.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/a-pio...
Oct 2004
Photopolis, Halifax Festival of Photography
Group exhibit entitled, Documents and Dreams: A Group Exhibit of Canadian Documentary Photography
Organized by Narrative 360 At ViewPoint Gallery, Oct.7, 04 - Oct. 31, 04, "Mohawk Child at West Gate Barricade" Giclee print (dim. 36" by 56")
Nov 2003
Bfly Atelier, Vancouver
Group exhibit entitled, Documents and Dreams: A Group Exhibit of Canadian Documentary Photography
Organized by Narrative 360 At Bfly Atelier, Nov.13, 03 - Nov. 25, 03, "Mohawk Child at West Gate Barricade" Giclee print (dim. 36" by 56")
2000
Les Vivres, Montreal
Solo exhibit entitled, "Hot July: Oka and Sexgarage"
Behind the Barricades: OKA, and Sexgarage: Serve and Protect - Silver prints, (dim. 8" by 10", 11" by 14"),
Quickprint/ Mylars (dim. 3' by 5'),
REVIEW
www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/071300/art1.html
Nov 90
Union Francaise, Montréal
Benefit for the Mohawk Defense Fund, Solo exhibit entitled,Behind the Barricades- Oka:
28 B&W documentary photographs (dim. 11" by14")
Oct 90
Le Festival du Nouveau Cinema et de
la Video, Montréal
Solo exhibit entitled,Behind the Barricades- Oka:
28 B&W documentary photographs (dim. 11" by14")
Wizard and Viper © Linda Dawn Hammond 1990
L."Wizard" and R."Viper" aka photographer Linda Dawn Hammond - the name Wizard bestowed upon me...
Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '90
"Wizard", one of the warriors, named me "Viper" after I had words with an aggressive Macleans writer in No-Man's land, which continued past the Mohawk barricade as that journalist attempted to plant an idea with the Warriors that I was an SQ agent, AS IF!! It later turned out that the SQ had made an error when they issued my press pass, which at that moment I was unaware of. I had asked 3 media I'd previously worked for as a freelance photographer- Macleans, NOW magazine and the Suburban, for accreditation. The latter was actually the one which came though for me, but the SQ had erroneously printed Macleans on my emergency measures pass, which of course I was happy about as I would actually get paid! The Macleans journalist said I didn't work for Macleans (though I'd shot an event at the film festival for them that week), he'd never seen me before. Well, I told him I'd never seen him before either. He then tried to order me, "You're not going ahead. You're not going back... you're staying here!", essentially trying to condemn me to the purgatory of No-Man's Land? I thought he was crazy, and said I would confirm with the SQ when I passed by their office later (miles out of town), but he wouldn't accept that. So I told him to fuck off. Someone tried to warn me to be careful of the journalist, telling me he's prone to violence. "Yeah, wouldn't want to hurt him!" I said as I brushed pass and crossed the Mohawk line. He ran after me and said, "She isn't who she says she is. For all I know, she works for the SQ!" He could have got me shot, as the youngest Warrior, age 15, was unnerved, his hand shaking as he held his weapon. "Do you think she is?" he asked the older Warriors. I managed to defuse the situation, addressing the Warrior who appeared to be most in charge, which was Wizard, pointing out, "Look at me, and now look at HIM, and you tell me who is more likely to be SQ?! The journalist then started to question the Mohawk warriors' authority to make that decision, on THEIR side of the barricade, at which point he lost all credibility. "Viper" was a definite compliment, as Wizard's exact words later were. " When I saw you behind the barricade, I said to myself, "This woman would probably make a good warrior. I name you Viper!" My dad, when I told him, said "I suppose you're proud of yourself?" and I replied with an emphatic, "YEP!"
Photographs and text by Linda Dawn Hammond
Behind The Barricades: OKA
BOOKS
2015 "HerStory 2015", (Coteau Books, Saskatoon Women’s Calendar Collective). Photo of Jenny Jacks, First Nations activist at Oka, from “Behind the Barricades” series.
2010 "Incident at Oka" (D&M Publishers), 1 photograph from Behind the Barricades: OKA " Jenny Jacks", Author: Harry Swain
2001 The Women's Daybook 2002, 'Women and Food' (Sumach Press), 1 Photograph and text by Linda Dawn Hammond: Behind The Barricades: OKA
1994 Semiotext(e) canadas (Columbia University Press)
Back cover Photograph and 3 within by Linda Dawn Hammond: Behind The Barricades: OKA
1991 The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French
Postmodern (New World Perspectives)
Author: Arthur Kroker
Photography by Linda Dawn Hammond: 2 from Three Part Bodyseries , 4 photographs from Behind the Barricades: OKA
www.scribd.com/doc/7426491/The-Possessed-Individual
EXHIBITIONS
May, 2017
Collège La Cite à Toronto
Exhibit and auction for MSF
Photos Sans Frontières
Solo exhibit entitled,
Derrière les barricades: OKA- Behind the Barricades: OKA,
6 photographs on exhibit, 3 additional in auction for MSF
June - Aug 2005
Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Group exhibit entitled, The American West
Behind the Barricades: OKA, 6 photographs,
REVIEW
www.birminghampost.co.uk/whats-on/find-things-to-do/a-pio...
Oct 2004
Photopolis, Halifax Festival of Photography
Group exhibit entitled, Documents and Dreams: A Group Exhibit of Canadian Documentary Photography
Organized by Narrative 360 At ViewPoint Gallery, Oct.7, 04 - Oct. 31, 04, "Mohawk Child at West Gate Barricade" Giclee print (dim. 36" by 56")
Nov 2003
Bfly Atelier, Vancouver
Group exhibit entitled, Documents and Dreams: A Group Exhibit of Canadian Documentary Photography
Organized by Narrative 360 At Bfly Atelier, Nov.13, 03 - Nov. 25, 03, "Mohawk Child at West Gate Barricade" Giclee print (dim. 36" by 56")
2000
Les Vivres, Montreal
Solo exhibit entitled, "Hot July: Oka and Sexgarage"
Behind the Barricades: OKA, and Sexgarage: Serve and Protect - Silver prints, (dim. 8" by 10", 11" by 14"),
Quickprint/ Mylars (dim. 3' by 5'),
REVIEW
www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/071300/art1.html
Nov 90
Union Francaise, Montréal
Benefit for the Mohawk Defense Fund, Solo exhibit entitled,Behind the Barricades- Oka:
28 B&W documentary photographs (dim. 11" by14")
Oct 90
Le Festival du Nouveau Cinema et de
la Video, Montréal
Solo exhibit entitled,Behind the Barricades- Oka:
28 B&W documentary photographs (dim. 11" by14")