The Work of "Tribute"

In a previous post I talked about an exhibit I was working on that would profile people in or from Sault Ste Marie that I admired greatly.  The goal was to use the exhibit of photographs as a fund raiser for the new hospital.  In that posting I didn't reveal any of the images because I wanted it all to be fresh and new when they were shown to the public for the first time.

Unfortunately, the exhibit didn't go as planned at all.  Here's briefly what happened.

I approached the Art Gallery of Algoma with a proposal to present a series of about forty portraits of people in and from our city.  Each would be accompanied with a "bio plaque" that would tell about the person and why I chose to photograph them.  My plan was to sell sponsorship for each photograph and the net proceeds from that would go to the hospital foundation to help with the new hospital.  Along the way to completing the project the art gallery's director retired.  An interim one was appointed.  They also got a new curator.  Then a new director came along and when I checked in with the new director regarding the Tribute show they had no record of it.  After much wrangling I was given a date for the show, but in the meantime the art gallery was renovated.  The gallery where Tribute was to hang was split into two galleries and the room they wanted to put the photos in would only allow me to hang about ten of them.  That would greatly reduce the revenue I was planning on trying to raise.

After approaching local companies for sponsorship, I received no support for the exhibit.  Sure, I still could have hung the images, but it was about raising funds for the hospital.  The show was canceled.

So, I'd like to present some of those images from the Tribute exhibit here to you.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did creating them.