PEOPLE OF THE WATERSHED: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN MACFIE

Join McMichael Associate Curator Emily Laurent Henderson for a curatorial talk featuring nîpisîhkopâwiyiniw (Willow Cree) exhibition guest curator, writer, cultural advocate, and Indigenous Archival Photo Project founder Paul Seesequasis. Seesequasis will discuss People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie, the first museum exhibition of settler photographer and trapline manager John Macfie. For more than a decade, Macfie travelled across Northern Ontario photographing Anishinaabe, Cree, and Anisininew communities along the Hudson Bay Watershed. His photographs, taken in the 1950s and 1960s, record communities during a period of intense and rapid change. Seesequasis discusses the resilience and joy captured in Macfie’s photography of Indigenous communities during a time of cultural upheaval.