"WAITING" - Photography Book by Tara Wilkinson
ANDARA Gallery in Prince Edward County is pleased to present “WAITING”, a photography book of works by Canadian fine art photographer, Tara Wilkinson.
Unable to travel and frustrated by the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Wilkinson decided to travel back through her photo archives to fulfill her wanderlust. Delving into three decades of images from journeys to over 25 countries, Wilkinson was drawn to street images of daily life taken during several trips to the villages and cities along Cuba’s north coast between 2014 and 2018. A common thread she found among the images: everyone was waiting. Waiting in line for food or medicine, waiting for transportation, waiting for someone to come home.
Wilkinson quickly drew a correlation between the everyday experience of Cuban citizens pre-Covid, and the universal experience we were all now sharing during the global pandemic. “We are all waiting,” says Wilkinson. “Waiting for the fear to subside. Waiting for a vaccine. Waiting to hug family and friends again. Waiting for the pandemic to end. We are all waiting for something”, she added.
In curating the exhibition, Wilkinson was careful to strike a balance between individuals and crowds, children and seniors, friends and strangers … all waiting in different environments - an important part of the storytelling. The black and white images are raw and reveal a remarkable amount of truth.
While there is obvious hardship in many of the images, one will also find hope … the artificial flowers on a woman’s sandals, friends deep in conversation, a little boy at play, the stroke of a parent’s loving touch on a child’s head, a plastic bag dancing in the wind at an intersection.
WAITING is available for purchase through ANDARA Gallery.
Unable to travel and frustrated by the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, Wilkinson decided to travel back through her photo archives to fulfill her wanderlust. Delving into three decades of images from journeys to over 25 countries, Wilkinson was drawn to street images of daily life taken during several trips to the villages and cities along Cuba’s north coast between 2014 and 2018. A common thread she found among the images: everyone was waiting. Waiting in line for food or medicine, waiting for transportation, waiting for someone to come home.
Wilkinson quickly drew a correlation between the everyday experience of Cuban citizens pre-Covid, and the universal experience we were all now sharing during the global pandemic. “We are all waiting,” says Wilkinson. “Waiting for the fear to subside. Waiting for a vaccine. Waiting to hug family and friends again. Waiting for the pandemic to end. We are all waiting for something”, she added.
In curating the exhibition, Wilkinson was careful to strike a balance between individuals and crowds, children and seniors, friends and strangers … all waiting in different environments - an important part of the storytelling. The black and white images are raw and reveal a remarkable amount of truth.
While there is obvious hardship in many of the images, one will also find hope … the artificial flowers on a woman’s sandals, friends deep in conversation, a little boy at play, the stroke of a parent’s loving touch on a child’s head, a plastic bag dancing in the wind at an intersection.
WAITING is available for purchase through ANDARA Gallery.
$50.00 + HST & SHIPPING
2021
11" x 8.5 inches, Satin matte softcover
ISBN: 978-1-7776921-0-0
80 pages, 55 black and white photographs
Photographs & Text by Tara Wilkinson.
Copyright © Tara Wilkinson, 2021.
All rights reserved.
2021
11" x 8.5 inches, Satin matte softcover
ISBN: 978-1-7776921-0-0
80 pages, 55 black and white photographs
Photographs & Text by Tara Wilkinson.
Copyright © Tara Wilkinson, 2021.
All rights reserved.
"AMORE" Coffee Table Book
Tara Wilkinson's first limited edition coffee table book "AMORE" features photographs and "love stories" from her AMORE exhibition of Italian photographs. Each hard cover book is an 11 X 14 landscape, 40 pages with layflat feature, and comes with a beautiful hard cover embossed slip case. Each limited edition copy is $200 + tax (13%) plus shipping. The sale of each beautiful book supports the artist's work and covers the costs for self publishing. To purchase a copy, please contact Tara directly at ANDARA Gallery. We accept Visa and Mastercard, and ship via Canada Post. All images are copyright © Tara Wilkinson, ANDARA Gallery.
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All works © 2024 Tara Wilkinson.
No reproductions are permitted without the written approval of the copyright owner.
