Gallery Fourty Nine Opening
Last weekend the Gallery Fourty Nine opened their inaugural show of photographs.
The gallery has been formed to support film photographers and I was lucky enough to have three photographs featured among the work of 64 local photographers.
With that many photographers the opening was packed and I had to go back on another day to have a proper look at the photographs.
The gallery is in one of Camera Trader’s spaces, and the company owner Anthony co-founded the gallery together with Kat and Betsy.
These photos are from the opening and from my second visit. I shot them with high-speed film, in a point and shoot camera with flash turned off.
The gallery is on the lower level of Market Square in Victoria BC.
It will be open for viewing for another two or three weeks on Wednesdays (12-5pm) and Fridays (12-9pm).
More information at their Facebook page (here), on their Instagram feed (here) or on Twitter (here).
To open any image in the gallery below click on it and then navigate with the arrows
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- Anthony of Camera Traders and co-founder of Gallery Fourty Nine
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- Betsy, co-founder of gallery
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- Kat (rt), co-founders of gallery
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- Opening night
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- two of my shots in this view
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- Opening night
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- Opening night
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- Opening night crowd
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- Opening night
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- From outside
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- Gallery a few days later
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- Betsy as gallery attendant during the week – appropriately she was scanning slides
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- It snowed the day I went back.
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- It was rainy the night of the opening, view from the gallery door.
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Olympus mjuii, Ilford Delta 3200, processed commercially, scanned at home
burnt embers 
Yes, congratulations Mr E! Did I see two of your forebears in one of those photos?
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Thanks so much Kate! You did see two of them. And also my son in another picture.
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Congratulations! … maybe you could write a small post with your photos that were selected .. it would be like an e-viewing of your work currently on display 🙂
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Thanks for the idea and interest Ashoke – I expect you saw my response in the form of another blog post with the images in it.
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Congratulations! And thank you for the virtual tour – a very cool way to photograph the gallery.
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Thank you so much! I would have felt a bit weird with anything other than an unobtrusive little point and shoot.
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Still, tho, you weren’t using a phone to take them 🙂
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So many local film photographers! It seems like the gallery was a great idea. I hope more of your work is shown there in the future.
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It would be good to show some more work. It is nicer printed for some reason. There was a local TV show about the gallery – this is the link for anyone interested https://www.cheknews.ca/soundchek-does-anyone-shoot-film-anymore-424939/
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I watched it – nice! There’s no reason why your work shouldn’t be in another show – it’s just a matter of paring down to see what would work best, right? A storm drain show could be fun…
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Storm drain could be fun. A dozen pics with catalogue 🙂 pipe dreams!
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