These revealing portraits were originally published in the
award-winning 1987 book Heart & Soul. In the
mid-1980s, Steve Evans knocked on doors
in small communities in the Ottawa
Valley, offering to photograph the
people he met. Similarly composed, the
photos suggest a series of interchangeable
theatrical sets, but there’s nothing
fake about these arresting portraits.
Accompanying the images are autobiographical
passages that evoke humour,
resilience, pride and sometimes sadness. Copies of Heart &
Soul, the originating book, will be on sale at Telegramme
Prints during CONTACT.

Curated by Ian C. Gillies