PHOTO ESSAY

Northern Exposures

Lovers of Canadian photography get Carte Blanche

By Alec Scott

April 20, 2006

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John Jackson, 1996. Photograph by Andrew Danson Danushevsky.

Guns do play a crucial role in this subject’s life, as evidenced by this Danushevsky shot of the same man 16 years later. This firearm is actually a prop from a movie, and again, Danushevsky doesn’t address Jackson’s evident gun fixation. “I was interested in aging, and in time passing, so I tracked as many of my original subjects down as possible,” he says.

Camilleri says the time Danushevsky invested in this project puts him in the Canadian photographic community’s mainstream. “When I came back from New York, I was struck by how obsessive Canadian photographers are, by the amount of time they often devote to their projects.”