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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.

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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.
Trudi Lynn Smith

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  • 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…

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  • 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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  • Image showing portable camera obscura

    Portable Camera Obscura

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2016July 12, 2024

    Portable Camera Obscura is an immersive technology. It is a walk-in, room-sized camera – a tent that breaks into multiple pieces to refigure relations between people, images and materials.

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  • zine page with discussant text by Trudi Lynn Smith

    terminus: archives, ephemera, and electronic art

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith October 1, 2015March 4, 2023

    The online archive of the zine and documentation of Terminus: Archives, Ephemera and Electronic Art is now live.

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  • Installation view showing Trudi Lynn Smith under darkcloth of 16x20 camera

    562 Fisgard. Installation

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith August 27, 2015March 4, 2023

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  • Installing the Portable Camera Obscura at Spiral Jetty

    Portable Camera Obscura — Great Salt Lake

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 30, 2015March 4, 2023

    Portable Camera Obscura at Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty at Rozell Point, on the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Installation with University of Utah Honors College Class that I was co-teaching in Fall 2013, Landscape, Place and the Visual Anthropology of Utah.

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  • showing Imagine our Parks website, a collaborative project between Krista Cabellero and Trudi Lynn Smith

    Imagine Our Parks

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 30, 2015March 4, 2023

    IOP is looking for nine artists to join us at different places along an artist-led expedition beginning in (present-day) Yellowstone National Park, (the first USAmerican national park) and traveling along the 42nd parallel…

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  • Vasia Markides filming beside the Portable Camera Obscura

    Mapping Meaning & The Salish Sea

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith May 14, 2015March 4, 2023

    Next week, artist Krista Caballero and writer/scientist Sylvia Torti, from the initiative Mapping Meaning, will be joining Ryan Hilperts, from the Redfish School of Change, and myself, for a kayaking trip in the Salish Sea.

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  • Photograph showing Portable Camera Obscura at Crane Arts in Philadelphia, 2009

    Portable Camera Obscura, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 15, 2015March 4, 2023

    Portable Camera Obscura at Crane Arts in Philadelphia, PA, 2009 as part of exhibition, Ethnographic Terminalia. Installation with early 20th century hand-tinted print (32x 48″) on easel, spotlights, tent, lenses, pillows inside for lounging.

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  • 562 Fisgard. Trudi Lynn Smith holding a glass plate in the darkroom

    562 Fisgard…into the dark(room)

    ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 11, 2015March 4, 2023

    Spring and summer marks the time when Lynda Gammon and I get to head back into 562 Fisgard to work on our project. This summer I am looking forward to 16×20 photographs using the camera we built and had help building, more experiments with peeling the wall, inviting the general public, nearby artists and friends to partake in looking at the wall through the camera, and high resolution digital video.

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  • Becoming anarchival
  • Open air photography
  • Infinite emulsion
  • Photodynamic gardening project
  • social practice and somatic photography

I acknowledge with respect that I live on the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day. I am an uninvited settler on these territories.

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