Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle : Kyler Zeleny

Gone are the early remnants of the Canadian West but its legacy still endures. Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle is a long-term project by Kyler Zeleny that documents the spaces and people of the last great ‘proving out’. The project advocates for viewing this space as a beast upon itself, with a particular type of landscape, industry, and most importantly, people, who are a resilient breed created by generational lessons in fortitude and fortuned circumstance.

 

Kyler Zeleny is a Canadian photographer-researcher whose current photographic research interests deal with contemporary rural issues and how geography extends identity and creates community. His personal interests are in found photography, family albums and the politics of archives.


 

Text and images © Kyler Zeleny

 
 
 
 

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