ARTICLE :How a dream becomes reality
updated Jan 03
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The project consists of photographing as many community elders as possible from
First Nations
Lake community (permanent and non permanent residents)
Municipality (urban and rural)
The goal is to produce a body of work that records the history and humanity of our communities as a living history.
This project will be a community effort involving, myself an assistant and possibly other photographers from Temagami, also volunteers can assist in this project.
The initial project will try to archive 30 to 200 portraits
It will take place over the next 2 years starting in winter 2009.
Portraits will be a permanent record made with digital equipment.
Archival CD’s or DVD’s of the final project will be produced for archival records and kept where archiving facilities exist, the Library or Municipal office.
All portraits will be made to be Frame and Display ready from a digital format( RAW and TIFF files), printed size ranges from 8 x 10 to 11 x 14 matted and framed with acid free materials.
A selection will be framed for display depending upon funding perhaps 20.
The framed portraits will be displayed galley like in halls, municipal and administration buildings but may also be available to businesses that apply to display them.
The initial approach to gather photographs will be a “public request to attend the studio and have your portrait taken” but also may involve personal invitations, requests and attendees to group meetings. I will also depend on the advice of the community as to which people might qualify.
The long-term goal is to keep this as a living project/archive.
I have received a grant from the Temagami Community Foundation to help cover some of the expenses but any further donations or assistance will be appreciated.
Gerald Richard Gooderham
Gerry
Gooderham
Group box 22
Temagami,ON
P0H 2H0
OFFICE 705-237-8904