CHLOE ELLINGSON
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As Long As Life Lasts
The most difficult realization I faced when my father died was how little I knew my mother. While a close relationship with my father was woven through my formative adolescent and adult years, my mother’s presence was implicit and unexamined. Through my years spent in the depths and recesses of grieving, pain has given way to an open space to see my mother in her strength, her beauty and the way in which she interacts with and is shaped by the world around her. Through photographing her where she is happiest - in water - I have begun to explore the last gift my father gave me: the opportunity to encounter my mother.
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Chloë Ellingson is a Toronto-based documentary photographer. After studying art history at McGill University and photojournalism at Loyalist College she began a freelance career working for publications such as The Walrus, The Globe and Mail and Report on Business, and having personal work published in the British Journal of Photography, on CNN, and at the Harbourfront Centre. Her independent projects have been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Magenta Foundation.
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