The passion of Susan Martin
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Well, the tourist season is over, now it is the Christmas gift season.
I am 68 years old and 35 years ago, two years after I graduated from Ryerson in Toronto with a photography degree, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that has derailed my career in photography more times than I can count.
http://martinprairies.com/ I have been getting finished prints for many month now from my master printer http://www.fidelisartprints.com/ who also prints the work of major Canadian photographers, including Fred Herzog. I have been selling them but this is a learning curve. I am going to have to get many more done. I shot a lot of film that summer.
The landscape I grew up in is deeply associated with my childhood memories, many of which came back to me when I was shooting in 1981, and again over the past number of months as I worked with the negatives.
Multiple sclerosis has distorted my ability to function in the world. Among other things I don’t have the means to earn money. MS struck me down so early in my career that I have never been eligible for a disability pension. When I qualified for Old Age Security at the age of 65, it gave me my first steady income since 1983. But it’s not nearly enough to pay for this project. That’s where you come in.
The reward of a book will take some time. I will give up dates and a calendar as a place holder.
I wasn't getting the smaller donations so I haven't been able to reward people with those rewards so I just started giving those away so my reward structure has changed.
I just tried to change my rewards but I couldn't so now I would like to add that donations up to $50 will just be donations. At $50 I will send you a calendar. At $70 I will send you a 12x12 print. I thank people for all that they have donated and to me it is a vote of confidence in me.
I am 68 years old and 35 years ago, two years after I graduated from Ryerson in Toronto with a photography degree, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that has derailed my career in photography more times than I can count.
http://martinprairies.com/ I have been getting finished prints for many month now from my master printer http://www.fidelisartprints.com/ who also prints the work of major Canadian photographers, including Fred Herzog. I have been selling them but this is a learning curve. I am going to have to get many more done. I shot a lot of film that summer.
The landscape I grew up in is deeply associated with my childhood memories, many of which came back to me when I was shooting in 1981, and again over the past number of months as I worked with the negatives.
Multiple sclerosis has distorted my ability to function in the world. Among other things I don’t have the means to earn money. MS struck me down so early in my career that I have never been eligible for a disability pension. When I qualified for Old Age Security at the age of 65, it gave me my first steady income since 1983. But it’s not nearly enough to pay for this project. That’s where you come in.
The reward of a book will take some time. I will give up dates and a calendar as a place holder.
I wasn't getting the smaller donations so I haven't been able to reward people with those rewards so I just started giving those away so my reward structure has changed.
I just tried to change my rewards but I couldn't so now I would like to add that donations up to $50 will just be donations. At $50 I will send you a calendar. At $70 I will send you a 12x12 print. I thank people for all that they have donated and to me it is a vote of confidence in me.
Organizer
Sue Martin
Organizer
Vancouver , BC
