Photography of place
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To mark the millennium, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery ([home.uleth.ca/∼saag](http://home.uleth.ca/saag)) invited Toronto photographer Geoffrey James to create a photographic portrait of the city of Lethbridge. James made four visits to the Lethbridge area over a 12-month period and produced more than 250 images. His large-format black and white photographs of the city's rural and urban landscape record what curator Joan Stebbins describes as the "uneasy alliances" between culture and nature. She writes: "His photographs document a specific moment in time, but hold within them an acute awareness of the meaning of that moment - an interval caught between the past and the present. In the Lethbridge photographs, James shows us something entirely new about our place; something that we can't see until he shows us, because it is too familiar." *The Lethbridge Project* exhibition continues until Jan. 15, 2000. FIGURE

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Figure. **Geoffrey James,** *Chinese National League,* 1998. Silver gelatin print. 40.6 × 50.8 cm. Collection of the artist