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).

Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 8, 2016March 4, 2023

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Pup tent camera obscuras

ByTrudi Lynn Smith June 3, 2016August 14, 2023

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

Becoming anarchival

ByTrudi Lynn Smith October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

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…

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