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Hamilton Arts & Letters
In bioregional and environmental studies, the term reinhabitation refers to practices of learning or relearning to live in a previously damaged or injured place. In this essay, I would like to suggest that reinhabiting Hamilton's Photographer's Union also known as The Photo Union (1982-1986) adds value to an arts community that has undergone an enormous amount of recent change. Arts activism is exhausting, especially done nationally on a shoestring budget. I can’t imagine that has changed much. But for a few years during the 1980s, the Photo Union’s commitment to their photographic and social justice mandate simultaneously inspired and challenged local and regional photographers and shook up the larger arts community as well.
[Distillate © HA&L + Anne Milne {from the Greek bios} -- the course of a life.]
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