'Three days walking' is derived from a trek by my wife Gail and I through the near-Gobi Desert of Mongolia in 2007. There is an obvious nod to the historic stereo views produced by itinerate travel photographers over a century ago. While my views are clearly not stereo, conceptually the paired images show a similar sense of displacement and parallax. On the left, you have your eager explorers, photographer and companion, having traveled from a place in the middle of Canada with a winter and summer climate and a rolling grassland landscape eerily similar to that of their destination in Mongolia. On the right is the social and environmental reality of a place largely unchanged over many centuries. No fences, no land ownership, no roads. A place, though strangely like our own in Canada, that is sparsely populated with nomads and horses.



'Three days walking' is a continuation of my ongoing Walk Project (visit www.firmangallery.com for further information).