The Anthropology of Historical Photography: with butterfly digital composite Dawson 1874 — Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park: A research program grounded in re-enactments of archival images to understand instability, ongoingness, and difference — what I consider as vital impulses in photography. Photographs are not only fixed as images or objects, but lively, entangled and emergent events (2003-present).

Waterton Lakes National Park

Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 8, 2016March 4, 2023

Read more about this project, Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park.

portable camera obscura in Riggall's Meadow, Waterton Lakes National Park

Portable Camera Obscura, Riggall’s Meadow

ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 3, 2015March 4, 2023

portable camera obscura in Waterton Lakes National Park

Portable Camera Obscura: Seel’s Tree, Waterton Lakes National Park

ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 3, 2015March 4, 2023

Digital Cultures

ByTrudi Lynn Smith September 14, 2017August 14, 2023

Fall 2017. Invited scholar, Digital Cultures and Creativity, University of Maryland. Workshop on respiration and photography with the Breath Camera. Students are part of the Seminar Fleshy Futures: Technologies and the Body.

A photograph showing emulsion making as part of the photodynamic garden

Photodynamic gardening project

ByTrudi Lynn Smith May 16, 2024May 22, 2024

It’s happening! Over the past while I’ve been working with my friend Kemi Craig, the City of Victoria Artist-in-Residence to seed a new photodynamic garden situated within a network of community gardens, at Wark Street…

An anthotype by Trudi Lynn Smith and the garden showing a blue-beige contact print of a coffee filter and some compost and garbage made during a workshop

Infinite emulsion

ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 1, 2024September 24, 2024

Vegetal colour, cabbage, rose, nettle, sopped up, mopped up, dried on paper. A solar printed intuitive contact print with diverted compost and other waste.

marigolds in a garden setting. photograph taken at the end of the day so the image shows the falling light

social practice and somatic photography

ByTrudi Lynn Smith August 14, 2023May 26, 2024

I’ve been invited into the Brock University community to work with photodynamic gardening. In September 2023, I’ll be in St. Catharines for a hands-on workshop in plant-based photography. As part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series,…

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