This picture was shooted at @Canadian Centre Cultuerl in @Paris during Stan Douglas’ photographic exhibition called “Abandonment and Spledour”
It’s 1996 in an Inuit Church in Yuqout, this photo is part of Nootka Sound series. The exposition presents other five series of ruins’ images, due to their brutal state of place. Their own history is evoked by their images, which have as common characteristics the suspension, it seems time stopped after shooting.
Stan Douglas puts together past and present in one unique time which it is never began nor ended. He collects everything humans left behind, in this case the colonial influence, which transformed indigenous between modern and progressist standard. The abandoned places in the pictures evoke lost population and culture, gave in to the most powerful.