SOCIAL STUDIES

Garnet Dirksen

The Cube
January 13 to March 24, 2018

Curated by Craig Willms, Assistant Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery

Garnet Dirksen works in photography, opting to shoot with film for its attachment to a history of documentary photography. He looks at shifts in trade and industry, their effects on local economies and the human element within built environments. Having grown up in Merritt, BC, Dirksen has documented the effects of economic downturn and the closing of resource-based industries and their impact on workers, residents and associated businesses. He seeks out work spaces altered by labourers with their own personalized touch and the emptiness of spaces in the absence of them.