Timothy Archibald’s Echolilia
“I knew he was tuned differently, and I needed to build a bridge, get inside his head, learn what made him tick.’’ – photographer Timothy Archibald on his son Eli (above), on today’s Lens blog. For a while I’ve been wanting to post something about Timothy Archibald’s Echolilia after coming across it this summer when I [...]
FilmPossible: Bringing visibility to disability
Earlier this week I received a note from Bloorview’s Karen Snider about FilmPossible, a new video contest they tweeted about last week. As the catchy tagline goes, FilmPossible is about “bringing visibility to disability.” I.e., shattering myths. The contest itself is pretty accessible, too. Open to budding filmmakers of any age, submissions can be made [...]
Seven from the week
Seven things I read/watched/noticed/thought about this week: Soul of Athens, the fourth-annual project by grad students in Ohio University’s School of Communications, launched Expression, the first of five sections featuring multimedia and still photography about the people of Athens, Ohio. The next one, Passage, launches June 15. Expression’s main piece is Banks of the Ohio. [...]
The Boy in the Moon
In a post a couple months ago, my friend Lucas wrote that he wanted to photograph the way Karen Dalton sang. On the weekend, curled up on the couch reading Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon, I realized something I’ve been trying to put my finger on for a while: I want to photograph [...]
Envisioning
This morning I received an email announcing the launch of www.envisioningnewmeanings.ca, the website for “Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference.” I was still working at the Toronto Star as a copy editor when my friend Lorna Renooy asked me if I wanted to participate in the initiative’s first workshops, which put photo and storytelling [...]
Trailblazers
Two weeks ago I got to do something I never had the chance to as a kid – go to a camp for kids with facial differences. I’m still working on an edit, deciding between colour/b&w, but here’s a preview. This is Kate.
NPAC essay feature
A couple weeks ago I received a note from NPAC’s John Lehmann. Edmonton Sun photo editor Tom Braid had seen a piece of mine that appeared in the Star a few years ago. The article was on a project I was working on at the time, on photographing people with facial differences. Would I be [...]
Envisioning New Meanings
I found out last week that stills and multimedia from the Envisioning New Meanings of Disability and Difference project I participated in late 2007/early 2008 will be exhibited in T.O. in February. More details to come on venue and date, but the gist of the project, which travelled from Toronto to Peterborough and Sudbury, was [...]
Can you sew?
Today was as close to one of my favourite TV shows, Project Runway, as I’ll ever get. I was assigned to help Steinunn and her assistant. That meant running to the store to buy white thread, steaming the wrinkles out of two cotton linen jackets and a skirt (not as easy as it sounds) and hanging [...]
