The Great Outdoors: Edward Burtynsky, Steve Driscoll, Ann MacIntosh Duff, Greg Hardy, John Hartman, Charles Meanwell, and Tom Wilson Tehohàhake

Much of Ann MacIntosh Duff's work was  centered around her life on Georgian Bay. Until very late in her life, MacIntosh Duff returned annually to a cottage on her beloved Scotch Pine Island where she lived by herself for three months, watching, listening and painting. The cottage had no running water or electricity so MacIntosh Duff would saturate her watercolour paper by dipping it in the lake.

Steve Driscoll's first formulations of what a landscape could be occurred during his childhood on canoe trips with his family. For this body of work, Driscoll scoured his extensive archive of photographs taken on tripsthrough Algonquin, Killarney, and Temagami in search of images of more quiet, intimate moments along the way.

In 1983 at the outset of his career, Edward Burtynsky drove through Hoh River Valley in Washington state during what would later be recognized as a formative project in North America. He wrote about the encounter in his journal and made a note to one day return and photograph it. 41 years later, Burtynsky documented the lush surroundings of the Hoh Rainforest in exquisite detail. This work represents Burtynsky's recent commitment to documentating pristine landscapes as a way of inspiring hope.