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562 Fisgard wall. Trudi Lynn Smith and Lynda Gammon. 12 - 16x20" contact photographs.
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A pink rectangular poster for the exhibition Becoming Anarchival at Gallery 881 by Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith showing in the center an image of a fossil anthotype.

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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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…

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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.

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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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Breath Camera at UMaryland Seminar in Digital Cultures and Creativity: students surrounding wearing Breath Camera.

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.

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The Anthropology of Historical Photography: with butterfly digital composite Dawson 1874

Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 8, 2016March 4, 2023

A digital composite print of International Boundary Survey 1874 (GM Dawson) “From the North Shore” and 2009 butterfly migration, with an academic reprint of the Anthropologica paper, ‘Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park’. Limited edition artist book 9×12″.

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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

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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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