About

 Terry Blake is an Ottawa based, interpretive documentary photographer. His initial works were film-based, examining monuments and how societies memorialize and remember. Examples include the Angkor temples of Cambodia and the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. More recently he has turned to urban environments across a number of continents.

 Terry’s current works explore post-industrial urban environments and how the urban place that people create both defines them and changes them. Through studies of social landscape, Terry aims to create discussion about the role people’s needs play in the changing of space into an evolving urban place.

  Working in digital medium, Terry creates unglamorous, direct images. Often the subject is engaged directly, attempting to humanize the scale of urban development. At other times, the work gives a sense of the greater urban space, particularly its social purpose.

  Typically, the images are not overly descriptive, allowing the viewers to draw their own observations and conclusions. Terry does not look to create a story but to document how his photographic eye interprets the urban space.

  Terry is fascinated by the notion that “this town has turned me into what I have become”.

Contact Terry Blake

spaoterry@gmail.com

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