DECEMBER 2014 - 2015
Eamon Mac Mahon
Selections from Amazon of the North
Eamon Mac Mahon is a Canadian artist working with photography and video. He grew up in the coal-mining town of Grande Cache, Alberta, exposing him to the Canadian wilderness at a young age – this exposure is reflected in his work. His photographs have been published in the Walrus, National Geographic, Capricious, MIT Press, and the New Yorker, and his career has taken him around the world. Amazon of the North, commissioned by the Walrus Foundation in 2011, portrays a deep connection and respect for the Canadian Boreal Forest.
By documenting the Boreal Forest, Canada’s most remarkable landscape and natural resource, Mahon has created a body of work that is both insightful and stimulating. The work reveals the natural functions and human developments within the forest that affect a range of ecosystems and unique and sensitive species.