It’s All Happening So Fast: a Counter-History of the Modern Canadian Environment at the Candian Center for Architecture

A thought-provoking critical review of Canada’s policies on environmental issues

Photographer Robert Del Tredici has 9 large photographic prints in the nuclear section of the show. Entitled “Glimpses of Nuclear Ontario”, his images show nuclear reactors, nuclear processing facilities, and nuclear waste sites throughout Ontario, with a special emphasis on the town of Port Hope, an hour’s drive from Toronto.

In addition to teaching The History of Animated Film at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Robert Del Tredici has been engaged in documenting the nuclear age. He has exhibited widely and produced five books of photos and text on the US nuclear weapons complex and the accident at Three Mile Island. He has documented protests, test sites, waste sites, nuclear pioneers, downwinders, and nuclear commemorations in  Hiroshima, Russia, Kazakhstan, the USA,  and across Canada. He has been particularly interested in the charming little town of Port Hope (population 18,000), which hosts one of the oldest and largest uranium processing plants in the world. Over time the town has become contaminated with radioactive materials from routine operations from the uranium plant, as well as from materials dumped in ditches, used as fill, and released into nearby Lake Ontario. The town is currently engaged in a $1.2 billion radioactive clean-up – the biggest municipal cleanup in Canadian history. Del Tredici has made many trips to Port Hope; his images of the town at the Center provide a glimpse of the elusive issues at play in slow-motion in Canada’s most nuclear town and province.

The exhibition opens November 16 and stays until April 9, 2017.

The Canadian Center for Architecture, 1920 rue Baile, Montreal.

At 7 pm November 16, 2016 a vernisage will be held, all are welcome