Hapnot Collegiate in Flin Flon, MB

In May,  I had a contemplative eight hour drive from Winnipeg up to Flin Flon, MB to work with a fantastic bunch of high school students at Hapnot Collegiate! Take a look at what we got up to. A big thank you to Christie Jedele, one amazing art teacher and my gracious and lovely hosts Jan and Greg Modler. Flin Flon has such an amazing and surreal landscape! We discussed the rough geography of Flin Flon and in turn how the art we create is coloured by our individual experience of the land we grow up on.  The photographs are thought provoking and depict many distinct perspectives from above the 53 Parallel! So proud of all these artists! #pinholephotography #artistintheschools #experimentalphotography

Fairholme Colony School Residency

In May of this year, I had the opportunity to teach my experimental photography program at Fairholme Colony School outside of Portage La Prairie. The time I spent there was really transformative! The students charmed me right from the beginning and we spent the first day collectively observing and drawing the camera obscura (set up inside the classroom). Next we transfered the drawings to canvas and began to paint the mural. We were done early and so on the second day we collected natural materials and created solar prints. Finally on the last day we built pinhole cameras and tried out Harman Positive B/W Paper for our pinhole prints.   The students taught me as much about living in a Colony as I taught them about photography! I have to say it was a very warm and cherished experience. A very big thank you to Serena Maendel, your thoughtfulness, determination and forward thinking are such an inspiration!

Above are photographs I took (with my Hasselblad), while staying in Fairholme, and further below you will find documentation of the camera obscura / mural component of the residency.

La Salle School AIS Residency

I just finished an amazing two week Artist in the Schools Residency at La Salle School where I taught "Drawing with Light: Experimental Photography". I posed the question: can you create an photo with a cardboard camera? All the students in La Salle school were amazed to learn about Silver Gelatin Photography and how to create a photo with a pinhole camera! We transformed the teachers lounge into a camera obscura to observe how light travels in straight lines, made pinhole cameras and took photographs about the community of La Salle. Thanks for having me La Salle. The last two weeks have been so much fun!

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Drawing with Light: Experimental Photography

The Program
Students will learn about analogue image making through the creation of photograms, pinhole cameras with the option to work up to building a life size Camera Obscura and mural. This program builds students’ awareness about the inner workings of early cameras and optics by exploring the photographic fundamentals such as: perspective, focus, light theory and composition.  Within natural and staged environments, students will also create ephemeral drawings, tracings and movements that capture and connect them to their local and national photographic milieu. Students will learn about specific artists and examples where early photography and painting intersect, encouraging the class to reconsider the relationship between the two mediums historically and in contemporary day. The experimental nature of this program makes photography an accessible and inclusive art form, opening up the creative potential of students. This program encourages the discovery of one’s own vision through a hands-on-learning, active looking and of course a bit of magic (or sleight of hand).

Lindsey Bond is a lens-based artist who creates collaborative photographic works and video installations that explore the starting points of culture and sidelines of community.As an Art Educator, she has a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching that is firmly rooted in the belief that art exists in everyday life and everyone has the potential to be creative. Lindsey received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and studied Visual Communications at Edinburgh College of Art and Design, Scotland. She works with an ethic that speaks to an intentional combination of research, analogue/hands-on processes and intuition.  In addition to exhibiting nationally, Lindsey has been an art educator over the last five years. She has taught children, youth and adults at Art City, The Children’s Museum, The Art Gallery of Alberta and Artist-Run-Centers such as PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts and Harcourt House. Using antiquated photographic equipment and processes like the Camera Obscura, Lindsey teaches students to slow down image-making to engage and make visual decisions that communicate their unique perspective.