John C Taylor Photography - BC Mine Report

Spud Valley - Entrance to Mine

BC Mine Report - Last Wall Standing

BC Mine Report - Bowling Lanes

BC Mine Report - Leaf Storm

Straight Line Imposed on Nature

BC Mine Report - Metal Roof

B.C. MINE REPORT
3 Limited edition portfolios
26, 8”x10” silver gelatine photographs
John C Taylor, RCA

Awarded Ontario Arts Council photography grant in 1972 to photograph Privateer abandoned gold mines in Spud Valley, near Zeballos, Vancouver Island. Taylor occupied the former assay office of the mine overlooking a waterfall. Thirty years since the mine was closed nature has reclaimed power over the straight line imposed upon forests of Spud Valley. These photographs document Taylor’s encounter with broken structures.

Exhibits
Vancouver Art Gallery
Gallery 56, Edmonton
Ontario Arts Council
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, N.B.
Canada Council Art Bank