Newfoundland

In the autumn of 2024, I embarked on a road trip on the Canadian island of Newfoundland, funded by the Genevieve MacMillan-Reba Stewart Travel Award. Over the course of two months, I traveled the perimeter of the island, camping in a series of “ghost towns.” Due to a crisis of overfishing, largely by foreign industrial vessels, Newfoundland’s cod populations, once the foundation of the island’s economy, dropped to catastrophically low numbers. When the Canadian government placed a moratorium on cod fishing, many rural communities were devastated and forced to relocate for other employment, leaving their homes behind. Each work in this series is an homage to a community, a home, and a painful history that drove countless families apart.