Emma Kreiner

Photographer
Hometown Heroes
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Location: Toronto, ON
Nationality: Canadian
Biography: I was born in Northern Ontario and grew up in Toronto. Interested in the ways people are defined by the landscapes they live in, I wrote a master's thesis on documentary films that examine a post-industrial... MORE
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Hometown Heroes
Copyright Emma Kreiner 2024
Updated Oct 2015
Location Timmins, Ontario
Topics Documentary, Environment, Environmental, Family, Industrial, Landscape, Loss, Photography, Photojournalism
For the photographic series "Hometown Heroes" I return to my birthplace of Timmins, Ontario, and explore my family's northern settler history and its effect on my identity. I photograph the private and public spaces which housed the creation of imagined and inherited family narratives. Through this project I exhibit the uncanny effects that the passing of time has had on this Timmins, on my family, and on myself. "Hometown Heroes" exposes an extended moment between the past and present, and the disjointed psychic space of a life shared between Northern and Southern Ontario.
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