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The old, abandoned and now demolished Jemkins Valve Factory in Lachine, Quebec, was a photographer's dream and an ecologist's nightmare.
This composition is of metal pins or nails that were left behind strewn on the factory floor. I liked the effect the natural light streaming in from the vast openings where walls once stood had on them. Their colour was changing as the oxidation was taking over from grey to rust.
What tales these old places tell.
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On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists, allies and volunteers rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Members from the global civic movement Avaaz have gathered for a celebratory Emoji-flashmob by wearing masks with smiley emoji faces, as Europe introduces the first law in its history to protect internet democracy. Belgium, Brussels Tue, Aug 30, 2016. Foto Olivier Matthys.
October, 2004, group show with Mary Bogdan, assemblages, Anne-Marie Vacherot, photographs and myself photographs at Galerie de bouche à oreille, Montreal, Québec, Canada
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Members from the global civic movement Avaaz have gathered for a celebratory Emoji-flashmob by wearing masks with smiley emoji faces, as Europe introduces the first law in its history to protect internet democracy. Belgium, Brussels Tue, Aug 30, 2016. Foto Olivier Matthys.
Christo came to Canada’s University of Toronto to discuss the New York Central Park Gates project as well as to present an overview from his own perspective of many others of his projects. I had the opportunity to briefly speak with him and present him with a DVD of my own short, 20 minute, documentary production of the gates. I found him charming and witty, humble and above all very spiritual. He was graciously grateful for my modest gift.
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On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
These photographs are about my relationship with the Earth, whereby I am representing humanity. But in my work as a photographer I can only speak for myself. I am celebrating the majesty and grandeur of nature and how we fit into it. In the photographs showing distant vast landscapes, I show evidence of humans through cars and electric towers all dwarfed by the awesome storm clouds and mountains. This beauty of nature is also evident in the more intimate views of the farms and country roads, again, showing our relationship with Earth and man’s harnessing of it for his own use.
Mine is a positive, optimistic point of view, because the scenes are beautiful and that implies that the beauty, even beyond or in spite of man’s tampering will always be there.
I use contrasting points of view. The macrocosm and microcosm. From very distant vistas, to closer images of rural scenes, down to close-up views of earth, moss and clovers, tree trunks, bark and root.
I strip them all of colour to present a raw image that allows the viewer to respond emotionally to shape, texture and contrast. I use techniques such as selective focus, lens vignette and rather large print size to draw the viewer in. The soft focus on the edge, gives a dream like effect and a “vintage photography” feeling from a time before we knew we were destroying our environment with harmful technology.
The works also evoke a quiet and calm sense of serenity. Although there is evidence of man’s existence in the photographs through the farms, buildings and towers, there are no actual humans in the images, so the lone viewer becomes the only perceived living participant in the scene.
Visual drama created by massive dark clouds has always intrigued me. It is one of the ways for me to understand how small we humans really are in this universe.
To be exhibited at Galerie Image Photo Encadrement, Sutton, Québec, Canada.
Entire month of December, 2005.
33" x 22" digital, Giclée print.
Presently on exhibit at Arts Sutton, April 20th - May 21st, 2006
I have also created a short film that expresses some of my concerns about the destruction of nature.You can view it here.
I could hear my footsteps making a crunching sound as I stepped through the fresh fallen snow. No other sound was heard. When I stopped walking all was quiet until the silence was broken by the chiclick sound of my camera shutter. I walked through this forest on so many occasions, but mostly in the spring, summer or fall. I have always enjoyed it. I never, however, knew this to be a magical forest until now. The snow gives it a very special ambiance and the sound is extremely particular when the trees are bare and the surface of the snow deflects it into a slight echo. The feeling of being alone is so strong. Being alone and in the moment. Being pensive and inspired. Silence… and then, chiclick. Another capture in this magical forest.
On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Hundreds of Internet cats rallied outside the FCC in support of Chairman Tom Wheeler’s hints that the agency will pass strong Net Neutrality rules.
On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
On July 23, 2014, hundreds of Free Press activists rallied for REAL Net Neutrality on President Obama's motorcade route as he attended a big fundraiser in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Members from the global civic movement Avaaz have gathered for a celebratory Emoji-flashmob by wearing masks with smiley emoji faces, as Europe introduces the first law in its history to protect internet democracy. Belgium, Brussels Tue, Aug 30, 2016. Foto Olivier Matthys.
One never knows what will be found in an abandoned industrial site. This is a vault door that for some reason had been burnt. I found it in the interior of a building that was a valve factory. Because I was deep inside the building, it was very dark and the daylighting appeared distant, dramatic and artificial.
To see more of my work, please go to sollang.com