Lake Ontario: A Body in Light

Over the past thirteen years, I have been photographing the local shoreline of Lake Ontario. Making up 20% of the fresh water reserves on Earth’s surface, the Great Lakes have been an area of relative stability for many millennia. Lake Ontario, a Haudenosaunee word meaning “shining waters”, embodies a paradox; abundance under increasing threat. 

Lake Ontario is a sanctuary and a site of fragility.

These photographs depict the evolving tension between protection and vulnerability in an era defined by global warming. Embedded within these images is a quiet sense of mourning. My repeated visits to the shoreline become acts of witness, and each image functions as both document and elegy; an extended farewell to each fleeting configuration of cloud, ice, sand, and wave.