Sydney Mines

But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road

or Liverpool Street in the morning . . .?

– Howard's End, E. M. Forster

In 1982, I began photographing buildings and streetscapes in Nova Scotia using a large format camera. Many of the pictures have been published in Historic Halifax and LANDMARKS: Historic Buildings of Nova Scotia - collaborations with the architectural historian Elizabeth Pacey.

The project was an opportunity to photograph in a more systematic way, to make pictures with less "me" and more "there", to learn a new (old) technology, and to pay back a debt to my adopted home.

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Red Row, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

Old Post Office, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

Beech Hill, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

Miner's House, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

Sydney Mines, Cape Breton

Gowrie House, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton