Montreal is often romanticized as a pseudo-European, colonial city, with endearing, vibrant, turn-of-the-century inner city neighborhoods—truisms that neglect the city’s dominant landscape, the post-war suburb and its industrial or commercial counterparts. Montreal Unknown focuses on these intellectually neglected landscapes and attempts to document exceptional moments—moments of change, moments of tension, moments of beauty—in what is otherwise an unexceptional whole. or a project that began in 2009 at Concordia University, where I studied photography for a year. The photographs moments—moments of change, moments of tension, moments of excitement. We often romanticize Montreal as a pseudo-European, colonial (old) city, surrounded by vibrant and dense turn-of-the-century neighborhoods with brick and stone duplexes and triplexes. But beyond these urban truisms lies the first post-war suburbs which are as important (and as dominant of an urban landscape) to the core urban identity of Montreal.
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Montreal Unknown is a series that began in 2009 during my studies in the Photography program at Concordia University. The photographs explore exceptional moments in unexceptional landscapes—moments of change, moments of tension, moments of excitement. We often romanticize Montreal as a pseudo-European, colonial (old) city, surrounded by vibrant and dense turn-of-the-century neighborhoods with brick and stone duplexes and triplexes. But beyond these urban truisms lies the first post-war suburbs which are as important (and as dominant of an urban landscape) to the core urban identity of Montreal. Here, the camera frames moments of exception, hoping to parse out scenes of visual interest in what is otherwise an ambiguous and potentially uninteresting whole.
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