COMPLICITY

My name is Mark Walton and I've created a photography book called COMPLICITY.

"Complicity is synonymous with being involved in an act of wrongdoing – immoral or illegal. In Mark Walton’s project, titled Complicity, it becomes a personal autobiographical accusation; a sharing of his journey from unknowingly to knowingly being complicit, in a damaging history surrounding Canada’s Indigenous peoples.

Walton’s photographic book opens with a small Polaroid image of a Hudson’s Bay Company point blanket. From there, page by page, we, as viewers, become engaged in a visual journey consisting of images punctuated with text that form a fragmented narrative and re-imagined time-capsule of charged emotive realities. " (From COLONIALISM CHIC: From Beaver Pelts to HBC Blankets by Shirley Madill, introductory essay to COMPLICITY).

The book's creation was generously funded by the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund, and an exhibition is currently underway at Button Factory Arts in Waterloo, Ontario.

I am seeking funding to take this project to print as a hardcover bound, 100 page book of colour and black and white photographs and essays.

You can see more about the project here at the project's website.