harbour front
06.2025 - present
Held between ritual and observation, harbour front is a quiet account of returning to the water each day, tracing the shifting surfaces, shorelines, skies, and atmospheric changes of Lake Ontario. Committed to tenderness and repetition, the series looks to the lake as a place where light, weather, memory, and presence remain in conversation.
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At the edge of Lake Ontario, harbour front is shaped by the daily act of return. Each visit begins with the same gesture, walking down to the water, observing and allowing the lake to reveal itself in a different condition. From there, the photographs develop not as records of sameness, but as studies in change. Light passing over the surface, weather gathering and lifting, colour shifting with the hour and the earth quietly rearranging itself in front of the lens.
Each return to the water brings a different version of the lake. Some days it is dark with wind, other days it is still, bright, foggy, or softened by light. Harbour front comes from the daily ritual of walking down to Lake Ontario and photographing what is there. Through repetition, the series becomes a way of noticing small changes in weather, colour, surface, and time.
The project is inspired by artists such as Roni Horn and April Hickox, whose work has shaped the way I think about repetition, place, memory, and looking closely. Rather than searching for one perfect image of the lake, harbour front is built through returning again and again, allowing the water to change in front of the camera. The same place becomes unfamiliar each day, holding traces of light, weather, and feeling as they pass.
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