About
As a Toronto-based location photographer, Peter Sibbald travels worldwide on editorial, documentary and corporate photography assignments. He has an extensive digital and analog library including environmental portraits of many of the most interesting people of our time, and would be pleased to help you with your research.
Peter’s editorial stock is represented by REDUX Pictures in NYC.
Although this is a photographer’s blog, it is not what is known as a “photoblog”. The purpose of this weblog is less about showing photography and more about discussing photography, the photography business and broader issues related to Peter Sibbald’s work. To view Peter’s photography, please visit the his web site.
You can listen to an interview with Peter about his work by the CBC’s Shelagh Rogers:
Shelagh Rogers, © CBC.ca, with courtesy
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Above:
Holland Landing, Ontario. Infrastructure Tourist
Approx. 44° 6′35.95″N 79°35′15.30″W, Facing North, circa November 15, 2007
From my series: Elegy for a Stolen Land
An “infrastructure tourist” photographs his shadow near a new storm water retention basin carved into former farmland west of Holland Landing. The farm’s topsoil is heaped in a large stockpile on the horizon.
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Find It
Focus
A fermentation (a.k.a. Compost) of media, technology, social justice, art and the environment as experienced on the ground through the eye of one Canadian photo documentarian, intended to help fertilize the zeitgeist and yield a mixed crop of new ideas surrounding civic engagement.
Origins
Out on the land seeking moments and light, I’m often reminded of the similarity between the life and livelihood of a visual journalist/artist and that of the farmer.
To Wit
“Well Ed, the Fishers had their auction last Saturday morning. I watched as the neighbourhood descended on the place and picked it clean. After it was over, and the Fishers had driven off to their new house in town, the auctioneer walked over the property with me. His name’s Freddy. Interesting chap, friendly and outgoing. Runs a beef and dairy herd on the farm next door, plants corn, grain, potatoes, turnips, does auction sales some blacksmithing, small auto repairs and real estate. What I believe is called mixed farming.”
Letters from Wingfield Farm, ©1989 Douglas Beattie. (Act 1) Wingfield Farm
Ongoing Investigations
• The Meaning of Land
• Rurality
• The Nexus of Technology,
Implimentation and Power in
Visual Communication
• Legacies of Colonialism
• Sustainability vs. Resilience in
Socio-Ecological Systems
