Scott Conarroe has a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His studies of landscape and the built environment evoke romantic pictorial traditions and locate the present within a sweep of history. He’s looked at North...
Scott Conarroe: By Rail – Railways of North America
Photography, railways, and North America developed more or less concurrently. Each, in its own way, transformed the world. Photography abstracted space. Railroads compressed distance. And Europe's occupation of the Americas re-calibrated power around the globe. Photos of vast wilderness lured the reckless and hopeful across the Atlantic, and rails were...