Scott Conarroe "About Trees"

For over 150 years photography has transformed how artists capture and render images of the world around us. From Ansel Adams to O. Winston Link to Henri-Cartier Bresson, the photographic image not only documents, but also reimagines reality around us. Canadian landscape photographer Scott Conarroe delivers both majestic and slightly off-kilter or disturbing images in the tradition of Canada’s acclaimed photographers Edward Burtynsky and Jeff Wall.

Conarroe’s camera delivers the magic of the natural and manufactured landscapes we encounter every day in a new show, About Trees, at Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto until October 26th.

Currently based in the evocative landscape of the Alps in Bern, Switzerland, the photographer joins us from, well, Japan of all places. In conversation, Conarroe explains how this homage to tree’s place of splendour in our lives derives almost by chance in his photographic journeys or “safaris” as he calls them.

The inspirational image for this show, Big Tree, Small Tree* was taken in London, ON during a working stint in the, ahem, Forest City.** If you’ve ever had to go to St. Joseph’s Hospital emergency room, you have likely seen these very trees across from the hospital’s parking garage.

Vincent Cherniak has lived his entire life in a complicated relationship with a not-so-huggable Black Walnut in his front yard in London, ON

For images of Scott Conarroe's photography and a mindboggling AI version of Vincent Cherniak's interview with Conarroe click here: