Portable Camera Obscura, Riggall’s Meadow



Pup tent camera obscuras. Two pup tents with knapsacks for solo trips: recovered vintage materials, darkout fabric, a set of simple lenses for close up and distant views. Tent footprint each 1.5 m x 2.1 m. Created for Imagine Our Parks, installations with selected participants in summer 2016.
Fugitives in the Archive opens today and runs until January 2019. (Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy) The exhibition is based on our research-creation work in the BC Archives. We interviewed archivists and conservators about…
I have been working on a collaborative project with Krista Caballero alongside invited artists Rebecca Clark, Hali Felt, Katie Hargrave, Sharon Mansur, Emily Nilsen, Ebony Rose. This week, we launch our traveling experimental installation along…
Krista and I are writing about on our upcoming experiment over at Imagineourparks.org. In our first post, we write about how “The Perfect Moment” started as a tongue-in-cheek response to the US’s NEA/NPS call for…
Watch the video footage here The impermanent return: Photography, protected areas and the matter of Linnet Lake. This is a film still from Lake Linnet, in Waterton Lakes National Park. The film still shows…
Becoming Anarchival This fall, Kate Hennessy and I are presenting our collaborative work at 881 Gallery in Vancouver. The work emerges from fieldwork around a defunded paleontology research centre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. We…