Justin Wonnacott is an artist, teacher and photographer who also writes from time to time. He has been doing this since 1974 and lives in Ottawa. The 5 photographs below are from a recent body of work titled “I remember + I forget” begun in 2006 and which is now complete .

I remember + I forget – Moonfish

An abalone spoon, Asian shrimp and sea urchins

Although it is very hot today my butterfish, blue runner and mackerel look wholesome and good to eat.

The delicious Red snapper often lives to an age of fifty years and more . . .

Samna, from the Sea of Okhotsk

Notwithstanding these pictures of fish, I am very interested in the changing role of photographs and what photographers do in art and popular culture. Some recent bodies of work I have made are informed by

* Traditional and digital photography and the histories of photography
* Constructed imagery and montages
* My relationship to pictures as an image maker and as an image consumer.
* Considering how public art and artworks in public places are informed by site, patrons, political opinions and other circumstances.
* The new realities of image convergence, social nets and database driven image archives , especially with regard to how I(we) locate images, assign meaning to them and make them available to others.

and like millions of others, I take pictures everyday. I teach at the University of Ottawa,  more of my work can be seen at my website , the somerset street site or the Visual arts department’s website.