The story behind this film photography collection is a long one, but worth the read. I had been thinking of getting back into film photography. Without having told anyone this, I was gifted a film camera. I didn’t get the hint until only about a week later when I was randomly given a bag of of film rolls, from someone who had no idea about my new camera or my desire to take photos. At that point, I was like, OK universe, I hear you. And my project began.

I spent about a year, taking random landscape photos to fill up the 24 exposure roll of film. I then carefully rewound it by hand and took another 24 pictures, deliberately double exposing them. This time I purposely took pictures of cityscapes and people as a contrast to nature.

I left this project in limbo, as I didn’t really have an end goal for it…. until I was accepted as an artist for Fort Calgary and Art Spot’s collaborative “Flip the Script” exhibition, an initiative to re-frame/broaden the narrative of Fort Calgary’s history. Artists were challenged to create original works of art from a more current perspective. It was then that I felt the need to get that roll of film developed. Below is what came out!

Although I started this project, which I now call “Tense” well before I even knew about Flip the Script, I intuitively know that this is its purpose. It was so fulfilling for this to come full circle and see my photographs framed and gracing the walls inside Fort Calgary-now called “The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland”.

https://www.fortcalgary.com/flip-the-script