Pulp & Paper refers to the industry that my mother’s hometown of Trois Rivières in Quebec was famous for, and why the whole city smelt of sulphur, especially in the summer months.
The book charts the journey in 2014 from Toronto to Montréal and then on to Trois-Rivières in early February; An attempt to find the land where the farm my mother grew up on, had once stood - an impossible attempt to go ‘home’ after it was demolished in the 1970s by the government for the expansion of the hydroelectric company and a highway interchange.
Shot on Super8 and digital and printed on news print and tracing paper.
The book won the portfolio review 3rd prize at the 2014 PhotoIreland photography festival and photographs from the project were exhibited at the British Short Film Festival in Berlin Festival in 2019.