1984
Donna James
Eight Men In A Big House
Artist
Donna James
Location
Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
A documentary series of black and white portraits of elderly men living communally in the Blue Dolphin Foster Villa in rural Nova Scotia.
James' photographs portray the daily rituals of the eight men who lived together in the home that her parents owned and ran. The photographs were exhibited in her graduating exhibition at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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