Curatorial Talk
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie
Saturday, May 11 | 2 pm
Join McMichael Associate Curator Emily Laurent Henderson for a curatorial talk featuring nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) exhibition guest curator, writer, cultural advocate, and Indigenous Archival Photo Project founder Paul Seesequasis. Seesequasis will discuss People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie, the first museum exhibition of settler photographer and trapline manager John Macfie. For more than a decade, Macfie travelled across Northern Ontario photographing Anishinaabe, Cree, and Anisininew communities along the Hudson Bay Watershed. His photographs, taken in the 1950s and 1960s, record communities during a period of intense and rapid change. Seesequasis discusses the resilience and joy captured in Macfie’s photography of Indigenous communities during a time of cultural upheaval.
Speakers
Paul Seesequasis
Hosted by
Emily Laurent Henderson, the McMichael’s Associate Curator, Indigenous Art and Culture
John Macfie, Webequoi girl standing in front of a teepee at Lansdowne House, 1956, photograph, John Macfie fonds, C330-14-0-0-16, Archives of Ontario.
Curatorial Talk
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie
with Paul Seesequasis and Emily Laurent Henderson
May 11, 2024
John Macfie, Man sitting against a building with a church in the background, Sandy Lake, c. 1952, photograph, John Macfie fonds, C330-14-0-0-103, Archives of Ontario.
Gallery Tour
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie,
Saturday May 12,19 and 26
at 12:30 PM
This exhibition tour of Peoples of the Watershed will contextualize settler John Macfie’s historic photographs of Anishinaabe, Cree, and Oji-Cree communities along the Hudson Bay Watershed through a guided explanation of exhibition curator Paul Seesequasis’ research.
Free with Gallery Admission.
Gallery Tour
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie
Thursdays at 12:30 pm
