2014 FALL EQUINOX CAMERA OBSCURA WORKSHOP
This was a camera obscura workshop over the weekend of the 2014 Fall Equinox, at Deadman Creek, on the farm of Paula and Mendel Rubinson. A TRU Visual Arts Research Assistant, Devon Lindsay, and Donald Lawrence turned Mendel's root cellar into a permanent, cave-like camera obscura and Devon created "Arbour Obscura" with the help of the workshop participants. Approximately 55 people participated in the workshop or otherwise visited the cameras obscura over the weekend.
DAWSON CITY RESEARCH MEETING, JUNE 18-22, 2014
In June 2014 the Camera Obscura Project group met in Dawson City to share ideas and plan towards the 2015 Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival. While in Dawson City the artists/researchers, including two TRU research assistants, undertook the following activities: 1) meeting lead partner institutions (the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, the ODD Gallery, and the Yukon Arts Centre) and other partners, including the Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, the Dawson City Museum, Parks Canada, the Yukon School of Visual Arts and the Robert Service Secondary School; 2) the artists/researchers shared brief presentations with the research group and three members of the group (Bob Jickling, Petran Kockelkoren and Donald Lawrence) provided public lectures for the Dawson City community; 3) Research Assistants Dion Fortie and Ryland Fortie provided public demonstrations of a portable, tent-type camera obscura at two events: Aboriginal Days (Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre); and on The Dome, Dawson City’s hill-top overlook and the site of the town’s annual late-night solstice celebration; 4) To gain a sense of the area and its history—and with an eye towards potential project sites—the group visited West Dawson’s Sternwheeler Graveyard; the Tombstone Mountains, the Beaver Creek mine camp, Gold Dredge #4 and Bonanza Creek. To end the week’s adventures the Kamloops-based road trip crew hosted a riverside breakfast for the group.
Dion Fortie and Ryland Fortie, Atlin Lake, June 2014
The Camera Obscura Project research group in the Gold Room, Bear Creek mining camp, June 2014
Mike Yuhasz and Bob Jickling with a gold dredge engine, Bear Creek mining camp, June 2014
Andrew Wright, Petran Kockelkoren and Dianne Bos gold panning, Bonanza Creek, June 2014
Kevin Schmidt gold panning, Bonanza Creek, June 2014
Dion Fortie and Ryland Fortie at the Dawson City Dump, June 2014
The Camera Obscura Project research group (minus Sven Dupré) in Dawson City, June 2014
Kevin Schmidt with tent camera obscura on the Dome, Summer Solstice, June 2014
Mary Bradshaw and Petran Kockelkoren doing a rubbing at Gold Dredge no.4, June 2014
The Camera Obscura Project research group taking a lunch break, Dawson City, June 2014
Mary Bradshaw and Ernie Kroeger and Bob Jickling doing a rubbing at Gold Dredge no.4, June 2014
Ryland Fortie and Dion Fortie with tent camera obscura, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, June 2014
At Bob Jickling’s house, with Bob’s boats, Whitehorse, June 2014
Dion Fortie, Ryland Fortie and Donald Lawrence setting up the tent camera obscura on the Dome, Summer Solstice, June 2014
Dion Fortie and Ryland Fortie on the way up to Dawson City, Stewart-Cassiar Highway, June 2014
Bob Jickling explaining the workings of an alcohol stove to Carsten Wirth, Dianne Bos and Andrew Wright, Dawson City, June 2014
Ryland Fortie and Lea Bucknell cooking breakfast on the Dawson City dike, June 2014
Ryland Fortie and Dion Fortie on the sternwheeler Julia B., West Dawson, June 2014
Petran Kockelkoren on the sternwheeler Schwatka, West Dawson, June 2014
Ryland Fortie, Elizabeth Houg and Dion Fortie with the tent camera obscura on the sternwheeler Seattle 3, West Dawson, June 2014
At the research assistants’ camp, West Dawson, June 2014
Dianne Bos with a model of her potential camera obscura project, Dawson City, June 2014
Donald Lawrence and Lea Bucknell in the Tombstone Mountains, Yukon, June 2014
Dianne Bos, Dawson City, June 2014
The Camera Obscura research group in Bombay Peggy’s, Dawson City, June 2014
Moosehide Slide
Gas 4 Less
The Spell of the Yukon
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Amy Tucker and other workshop participants with a tent camera obscura.
Workshop participants Bart Cummins and Harry Gillett gathering materials for the Arbour Obscura.
Workshop participant Bill and Wendy Lindsay gathering materials for the Arbour Obscura
Workshop participant Bill Lindsay gathering materials for the Arbour Obscura
Colin and Jonah Lyons outside the Root Cellar camera Obscura.
Workshop participants Darlene Kalynka and Dasha Novak inside the Arbour Obscura
Workshop participant Dasha Novak gathering materials for the Arbour Obscura
Visitors entering the Root Cellar Camera Obscura
The entrance to the Rubinson's Farm, Deadman Creek
Visitors signing the guest book.
Workshop participants Kim Matuschewski and Kristina Bradshaw making the inside of the Arbour Obscura lightfast.
Visitors leaving the Root Cellar Camera Obscura.
Workshop participant Marianne Neill with Clifton and his re-purposed propane tank.
Workshop participant with moose antler inside the Root Cellar Camera Obscura
Outside the Arbour Camera Obscura.
Workshop participant Robbie fitting materials into the Arbour Obscura.
Steven Hurst and Angie signing the guest book.
Tent Camera Obscura at the workshop.
Workshop participants inside the Rubinson's vegetable-washing shelter.
Workshop participants inside the Rubinson's vegetable-washing shelter.
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The Camera Obscura Project brings together an international group of artists and other researchers interested in cameras obscura, related optical phenomenon and the meeting places of: art and science, cultural and wilderness settings, learning and play. With funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada the Project is based at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, B.C.
