Credits
Website design and production: Tim McLaughlin
Introduction: Petra Watson, Writer and Curator
My work at the PNE has been greatly facilitated by the support and
co-operation of many people. I would like to thank Annette Antoniak,
General Manager and CEO of the Pacific National Exhibition, for granting
me access to the fairgrounds and expressing interest and support for the
project since its inception in 1997. Thanks also to Laura Ballance, PNE
Media Relations, for her help in making arrangements for my daily
visits.
Both Tim McLaughlin and Petra Watson were instrumental in
conceptualizing and fine-tuning the web project, and I thank them for
their patience and thoughtfulness.
And finally, I would like to express my appreciation to all of those
vendors who allowed me to photograph them, and took the time to talk to
me about their lives.
Michael de Courcy
Biography
Michael de Courcy is a multi-disciplinary artist who variously employs
photography, screenprinting, video, performance, and digital media in
order to continue to make his work accessible to the community at large.
Born in Montréal, Quebec in 1944, he studied there at the École des
Beaux Arts and at the Vancouver School of Art. He has taught photography
and printmaking at the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver
Native Education Centre, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally since
1969.
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Michael de Courcy