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Behind the Mall

By Diana Shearwood

Off and on for many years Montreal photographer, Diana Shearwood , has been following food trucks. Emblazoned with rubied strawberries, glistening cheeseburgers and day-glo drinks, these fast-moving billboards glint into our consciousness for only the briefest of moments. Shearwood’s photographs arrest these image movers, idling them in a frame as so much food to be consumed <hreflong our daily commute through visual culture.

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The Svalbard Seed Vault

By Rebecca Duclos and David Ross

Inside a sandstone mountain on a remote Arctic island near the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is taking shape. Featuring local polar bear protection, blast-proof doors, motion sensors, metre-thick steel reinforced concrete, and double air-locks, the Seed Vault will be the safest cold storage agricultural genebank in history.

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Attempt at an Inventory

By Dean Baldwin

For an entire year, Dean Baldwin photographed everything he ate and drank (well, almost everything.) His attempt at an inventory is a taxonomic excursion through his daily spread, a photographic record of plates filled and scraped. By visualizing both the seduction and repulsion of so many morsels consumed over an extended period of time, Baldwin’s “food photography” transforms the Gourmet glam shot into a pedestrian advertisement for the everyday.

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Behind the Mall

By Diana Shearwood

Off and on for many years Montreal photographer, Diana Shearwood , has been following food trucks. Emblazoned with rubied strawberries, glistening cheeseburgers and day-glo drinks, these fast-moving billboards glint into our consciousness for only the briefest of moments. Shearwood’s photographs arrest these image movers, idling them in a frame as so much food to be consumed <hreflong our daily commute through visual culture.

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