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Hello, my name is Jamie. I'm in my final year of earning a Bachelor of Design in Photography at the Alberta College of Art and Design. I use a Canon 5D Mark II and various manual Zeiss lenses with natural light.

My work centres a lot on photographing and documenting historical or abandoned structures. While I don’t see my images as a call to arms to save these locations, I do feel that local and historical preservation is crucial to our society so we can understand where we came from, where we have been and where we are going and how learning from the past can help us with that future.

A few artists of influence are Danny Singer, Bernd and Hilla Becher and George Webber. These photographers in many ways photograph the same ideas that I do, just in different ways and with different subjects. I think we are all concerned with preservation, memory and exploiting these lesser known geographic and social regions, bringing them to the foreground of our awareness.

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