Category: Photography
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Shooting an Eclipse
On April 8th 2024, a total eclipse of the sun was witnessed across North America, from Mexico to Newfoundland. I had been thinking about the eclipse since Christmas, but I only started planning in earnest…
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Removing Monuments
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…
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The Role of Monuments in Colonization
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…
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Colonialism
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,…
