Baie Verte Peninsula

Issue 34: The rural in photography

Photography is overwhelmingly an urban affair. I mean, how could it not be. Its invention is inextricably linked to the industrial revolution, colonial and imperial conquest and the rise of the cities. Bodies of work focused on the rural, especially the rural that is not made into an exotic other,

Road trips

The road trip stories...

"Nearly all our villages today... are communities in the process of dissolution." -Henri Lefebvre Last week I was at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation annual conference in Corner Brook and so had an opportunity to hear a keynote from David Douglas, one of the most thoughtful and kindest