Category Documentary

Something related to a documentary work or project

Development

Architecture, Building, City, Content, High Contrast, Outdoor, Photography, Place, Skyscraper, Unsaturated

When looking at urban plans that describe a development of 20 – 30 towers, ranging from 25 to 80 stories it can be difficult to imagine what that actually looks like.

Removing Monuments

2020-07 Monuments Project, Abandoned Place, Architecture, Art, Building, Content, Dark, Monument, Photography, Place, Projects, Statue, Thing, Unsaturated

While monuments are not history, they can and should be held accountable to history. Monuments that perpetuate harmful myths and that portray conquest and oppression as acts of valour require honest reckoning, conceptual dismantling, and active repair. National Monument Audit…

The Role of Monuments in Colonization

2020-07 Monuments Project, @VAu 1-247-600 (2016 Mar-May unpublished), @book-2016-Newfoundland-Personal Edition, Architecture, Battle Field, Building, Content, Event, Event - Travel, Grave, Graveyard, HistoricSite, Locale, Monument, Other, Projects, Religion, Thing, Travel

Monuments offer interpretations of the past and play an outsize role in shaping historical narratives and shared memory. In the service of remembering the preferred narratives of their creators, they also can erase, deny, or belittle the historical experience of…

Colonialism

2017-04 Remnants, Building, Europe, Event, Event - Travel, Germany, High Contrast, Monument, Photography, Places, Projects, Registered-Copyright (1-6159387440: 2017 unpublished works), Sonneberg, Thing, Travel

Colonization is a process that replaces indigenous peoples’ culture with those of the colonizer and puts in place institutions and mechanisms to perpetuate it. Colonization is not simply an act of taking over physical territory, it is also an act…