Winnipeg in Black and White

Rooted in the rhythms of Winnipeg’s urban landscape, each image in this exhibit reflects a practice shaped by light, weather, and the quiet details of daily life. This is photography distilled to its core—composition, contrast, and feeling—offering a window into the city as seen through Indigenous youth perspective and presence.

Filed Under: 2024-5782, Indigenous 360, Manitoba, Winnipeg

The dome of the St. Boniface Archdiocese rises with quiet dignity over Winnipeg’s historic French quarter, a structure as solemn as it is beautiful. Caught in the crisp contrast of winter sun and shadow, the building’s architectural grace tells a story of leadership and legacy. The Romanesque lines and tall, narrow windows evoke the traditions of the Church, while its presence reminds visitors of the enduring role St. Boniface has played in shaping Métis, Francophone, and Catholic identities.

Echoes Beneath the Dome

The stark silhouette of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface church dome rises defiantly against a brooding prairie sky, its neoclassical lines softened by decades of memory.

Tony Eetak April 23, 2025

A hollow in stone opens the eye. Shadows wait patiently, folding silence into silence. Paint bleeds across decades, whispering in light. You are the lens. Time coils around the absence. Meaning slips between surfaces—seen, not seen. There is no centre, only edges pretending to hold form.

Framed in Silence

There’s a stillness in this moment—caught while peering through the void of a carved sculpture.

Tony Eetak April 1, 2025

This Winnipeg alley dreams in grayscale, where nothing begins and nothing quite ends. It folds space like a tired map, worn soft at the creases. Light doesn’t fall here—it drifts, uncertain, like memory losing its edges. Brick holds the breath of things unsaid, while the ground carries a quiet ache, neither sorrow nor peace. The buildings don’t lean—they hover, caught between presence and forgetting. In this suspended stillness, time exhales slowly, then disappears, leaving behind only the echo of having once been.

Still Standing

Just as stories live in the land up north, here too, they settle between the cracks of time.

Tony Eetak April 1, 2025

You don’t enter these diners—you return to them. Even if it’s your first time. Fluorescent light softens. Coffee refills itself. The staff doesn’t change, only shifts. These places are stitched together with decades. Outside, everything’s different. Inside, nothing ever really left.

Old School Diner

In a Winnipeg diner, down on Henderson Highway, where time forgets to hurry, stories steep like old coffee.

Tony Eetak March 28, 2025

A figure halts the stream of image—momentarily. Not to block it, but to hold it, to be shaped by it. Projection meets person, and neither stays the same. Shadows don’t erase light; they reveal where it lands.

Held in Light

A silhouette meets a projection at Urban Shaman, where story and shadow converge Bathed in projected light, the silhouette becomes a moving part of the

Jamie Bell March 28, 2025

They gather beneath giants—paint, steel, and silence pressing down like weather. Here, they are not exhibits but echoes, resisting the stillness with their own weight of being. This is not interruption. This is grounding. A reminder that presence is also a kind of art.

Under the Gaze of Giants

In a quiet alcove beneath towering canvases, a small group of youth sit cross-legged, whispering between museum murmurs. Their presence, casual and at ease, contrasts the grandiosity of the gallery.

Tony Eetak March 28, 2025

$Each fracture finds its place. Each piece, once discarded, now holds position in something greater. This mosaic doesn’t erase what’s broken—it listens to it, arranges it, builds a compass out of the scattered. To stand at its center is to feel the world pulling gently toward wholeness.$