Professor Adrian Blackwell's series of pinhole photographs, Evicted May 1, 2000 (9 Hanna Ave.), is currently being exhibited in New Canadiana: The Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund and Art as Social History at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario, from August 21 until December 5. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue of the same name.

Evicted May 1, 2000 (9 Hanna Ave.) is a series of 13 Cibachrome prints documenting artists workspaces in a former munitions plant in downtown Toronto. The photographs were taken using a handmade camera constructed as a scale model of the unit being photographed. Images are captured on film mounted on five faces of the camera, so that when the film was unfolded, it clearly registered the room's plan, elevations and all of its visible contents. The artists working in these spaces were all evicted on May 1, 2000 to make way for a fibre optics server. The series documents the loss of productive and creative workspaces in the changing dynamics of the Postfordist economy.

For more information:

http://www.aeac.ca/exhibitions/current/canadiana.html