Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland's Resettled Communities

During the summer of 1998 Scott Walden travelled to the sites of Newfoundland's resettled communities, photographing their physical remnants with his large- and medium-format cameras.  These photographs, collectively entitled Unsettled, have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador (fall 2001) and the Cambridge Galleries (summer 2003).

Walden has now written a book which uses his travels that summer to occasion reflection on the historical and philosophical aspects of resettlement, and on the potential of still photography in dealing with the loss these physical remnants represent.  Entitled Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland's Resettled Communities, the book includes duotone reproductions of 40 of the Unsettled images, along with many vintage images of the communities in their heyday.

Born in Toronto in 1961, Scott Walden received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, an M.A. from Dalhousie University, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School, City University of New York.  He currently  teaches philosophy and photographic theory at New York University and the Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Walden has published  reviews and essays in C Magazine, Newfoundland Quarterly, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.  His photographs have been exhibited in Canada and the United States, and  published in the St. John's Telegram and Maclean's Magazine.  Walden has twice received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.