By Matt Prokopchuk, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com KENORA – An art installation that’s currently on display in Kenora captures decades worth of colour photography showing life in the far north around the mid-20th century. People of the Watershed is comprised of dozens of scans of photographs taken from original 35-millimetre Kodachrome colour slides. The photos were taken by John Macfie, a longtime trapline manager for the then-Ontario Department of Lands and Forests, of life in many northern First Nations where he lived and worked. The exhibit by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection was curated by Paul Seesequasis, a Willow Cree journalist and photographic curator. The exhibit is at Kenora’s Douglas Family Art Centre and Lake of the Woods Museum (collectively called The Muse) until they close for the holidays…
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