Kathryn Walter

CPR Lands: Dalhousie Station/Faubourg Quebec, 1993 
Exhibited with the touring group exhibition Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography curated by Marnie Fleming, 1997-99
Oakville Galleries; 
​Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Presentation House, Vancouver; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary; Centre Culturel University of Sherbrooke, Quebec; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Winnipeg Art Gallery

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​Kathryn Walter’s work focuses on contemporary social landscapes… Her photographic series CPR Lands: Dalhousie Station/Faubourg Quebec, Montreal depicts the redevelopment of a nineteenth century railway site… it combines a panorama of colour photographs with an archival image of the departure of the first transcontinental train from the same site in 1885…In contrast to the wide-angle sweep of a panoramic view, however the image is fragmented into six separate views. This deliberate separation slows down the viewer’s experience of looking at the image, thereby heightening an awareness of a landscape in ruins.
​Excerpt from catalogue text by Karen White


Track Records: Trains and Contemporary Photography included artists Roy Arden, Ron Benner, Vera Frenkl, Angela Grauerholz, O. Winston Link, Louise Noguchi, Glenn Rudolph, David Thomas, Douglas Walker, Kathryn Walter, James Welling

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