Between 1997 & 1998 I lived in South East Asia, spending most of my time living in the jungle/border area between Thailand and Burma with the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF). I took hundreds, if not a few thousand photos all on 35mm film. I was a young female photographer living with a "guerrilla army", extremely naive about global politics (I tried the internet to research Burma...
The TLR Club's Modern Canadian Interiors has been submitted to the Artist Book of the Moment. The "A" is silent. “Publishing is not a neutral act. It is implicitly political and aesthetic. The publishing is part of the aesthetic of the work, in terms of its look, its distribution, and how the audience interacts with the work, both in terms of reading it, engaging with its writers and...
Modern Canadian Interiors, the first book by the TLR Club (Richelle Forsey, Martin Helmut Reis, Alejandro Valencia, Kevin McBride and Colin Savage), is a photographic journey of abandoned spaces in Ontario including the Gravenhurst TB Sanatorium, the Old Don Jail, New York Pork, Firestone Tire, St. Clements Church and more… Is now available in four bookstores and galleries! the Art Gallery of Ontario shop EYELEVEL Gallery in Halifax...
This poster was a submission that wasn't accepted. It appears here with the printers bleed. Chairs are the most often abandoned piece of furniture. This poster features my photos of my favourite abandoned chairs as they were found. People often design entire environments around a chair to illustrate the function or status of a room. Nothing changes when they leave. The chairs are now a suggestion of...
This is the postcard I designed for the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Independent Project, Residue (2011) that I am co-curating and exhibiting in.