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

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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

A photograph of Trudi Lynn Smith and Kemi Craig's feet and a 4x5 view view camera pointed at the photodynamic garden

Open air photography

ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 12, 2024July 25, 2024

on most Wednesdays from 10am -12 pm, City of Victoria Artist in Residence Kemi Craig and I can be found at the Photodynamic Garden at Wark Street Commons located on unceded Lkwungen territory. We’re garden…

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…

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.

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

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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