Our new photo essay Song for the New Depression features the Montreal-based musicians Sabah Lachgar and Hassan El Hadi, performing Ça va venir – a song first made famous during the Depression years by Mary Travers. Known as La Bolduc, Travers attracted a huge following throughout French Canada with her catchy songs inspired by current [...]
September 15th 2009 No Comments
From one great depression to another
As it happens, I did some marketing work on The Dark Years back in 2007 when it was released. So it’s strange and interesting to be now working on the GDP project — documenting yet another Great Depression, not as history this time, but as a contemporary event.
Here’s another piece of history on the 1930s [...]
Tags: economy · english posts · thoughts
July 23rd 2009 No Comments
Premières réflexions sur ce projet de webdocumentaire
En mars dernier, la toute première fois que l’on m’a parlé de ce webdocumentaire de l’Office national du film — ONF, je me suis immédiatement rappelé mes cours d’histoire de la photographie avec le Farm Security Administration – FSA et son important volet de documentaire photographique de la grande dépression aux États-Unis. En plus d’une [...]
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