LESLIE GRANT grantl@newschool.edu				PORTFOLIO | RESUME
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PHOTO PROJECTS Domino The Peekskill Project Forestry Remake/Remodel Pictures Maps Shadows Michelle du Bois FOUND Dancing Pointing Handshakes GROTTO GALLERIE bivouac darque darque Fortification The Amorphousness Show Estate You Can't Get There From Here TEACHING Freshman Seminar Sophomore Seminar Landscape Photography 2007 Landscape Photography 2006 Vernacular Photography Summer Intensive Studies Color 2 Color 1 Still Photo 1 PATTI Wildlife Track & Field Hip Bumpkin Weddings Expose Abjection Destiny PHOTO ALBUMS New York City Cambodia Rochester Minneapolis Vancouver Los Angeles Santa Cruz San Diego MAGAZINE WORK index magazine SEWING Sinking Ship Averill Avenue		The Forestry Project by Al Bersch and Leslie Grant in collaboration with Tembec and the communities in and around Fernie, BC The Forestry Project, June 30th, 2005 We are working on a documentary style photography project about logging and forestry in and around Fernie, BC, and the community that shares a history with these occupations and industries. We would like to collaborate with anyone involved in logging, silviculture and forest products production, including residents of the area and employees of Tembec. We are interested in personal histories and storytelling, visual and verbal, in the form of photographs, conversations, writing, historical documents, and anything else pertaining to the project. We see this kind of collaboration as being fluid ­ people would be able to contribute to the extent that they want, and there is not a set structure that we have in mind. Our participation is only part of the final product, so that the project includes multiple viewpoints and layers of storytelling about logging and the Fernie area. The work will be produced as a small, self-published book and an exhibition, both which will be available within the community. The reason we are doing this project is that we are interested in labour, in terms of how communities form around an industry and in how labour defines us. Wešve chosen the Fernie community because of the incredible history of forestry in the area, the rich ties of the community to logging, and the potentials for the future. Photographs 1-6 shown here were exhibited in Arm in Arm at the Or Gallery in Vancouver, BC, October, 2005 as 16x20 color c-prints hung in pairs. They were accompanied by a set of postcards (images 7-9) and a photocopied pamphlet of stories. All photographs by Leslie Grant and Al Bersch unless otherwise noted. next