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Contact 2010 – A World Abandoned

April16

DK Photo Group:
Russell Brohier, Sean Galbraith, Steve Jacobs, Laurin Jeffrey, Mathew Merrett

The AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery presents A World Abandoned, the DK Photo Group’s (DKPG) photographic exploration of European architectural decay and abandonment. Photographed during the filming of a television series for Bravo! Canada titled photoXplorers, DKPG’s images provide a haunting look at forgotten industrial mega-structures, castles, institutions and churches. The resulting photographs are beautiful, original and eerily alive.

Sean Galbraith, Hasard Cheratte Mine, Belgium, 2008, Chromogenic print, 36 x 24 in.

Sean Galbraith, Hasard Cheratte Mine, Belgium, 2008, Chromogenic print, 36 x 24 in.

AGO Art Rental + Sales Gallery
May 3–31, 2010
Opening May 6, 6:00–9:00 pm

481 University Ave
Toronto, M5G 2E9
Mon – Fri 11am – 5pm
Sat May 15 10am – 3pm
416-977-4654
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Since 1965, The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Art Rental + Sales Gallery (AR+SG) has consigned artwork from Toronto’s top galleries and independent artists, including Olga Korper Gallery, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, Georgia Scherman Projects, Feheley Fine Arts, Diaz Contemporary, and many more, totaling over 40 galleries, and more than 50 independent artists. Our entire rotating inventory of over 500 works is available for rent to AGO members (memberships available at AR+SG) and for purchase to everyone.

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Related posts:

  1. Contact 2010 – Urban Ruins
  2. Contact 2010 – Relinquished
  3. CONTACT 2010 at the AGO
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I am a real estate agent and a photographer, blending the two passions into what you see here. Selling condos and lofts, I am very cognizant of the pace of development in Toronto. I love seeing the conversion of an old factory or warehouse into lofts – even more when I see the same joy in the face of a client viewing such a unit.

Our world is filled with structures, some forgotten and others well-loved. What stories do these buildings have to tell… what scenes have those stones witnessed? Why is the human race so obsessed with erecting these monuments made of metal and brick – and why do they so carelessly abandon them when they are no longer needed?

These are some of the questions I like to address in my photography. I lived for many years in a small town north of Toronto and saw many old farms left to rot. It was these old barns and silos that originally piqued my interest in the decayed. Now exploring the urban landscape, my goal is to bring the documentary power of my camera to the hidden areas of cities everywhere.

Co-founder and member of the DK Photo Group and co-owner of galleryDK – this vision has taken me to new heights. The work of the DKPG and myself was recognized by Bravo!TV in a 6-show series “photoXplorers” that ran from November 5th through December 10th, 2009

I am immensely proud to announce that I was elected to the both the Ontario Society of Artists, as well as the Society of Canadian Artists, in 2009. This sort of recognition by my peers is a very major honour.

Laurin Jeffrey, OSA SCA
Lopix Photography
416-388-1960
lopix@lopix.com

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