Kate Hutchinson

SEASONS OF SEPARATION / KATE HUTCHINSON
10.21.2022
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Seasons of Separation by Kate Hutchinson

The photobook Seasons of Separation is a carefully constructed meditation on separation, divorce and single parenting. With the camera set up to frame her dining room table, artist Kate Hutchinson photographed this evolving surface over a three-year period. Part document, part staged scenes of grief, loss and growth, the camera made visible the transformation and tumult that Hutchinson experienced during this time of upheaval. Ending with photographs taken during the pandemic confinement, Seasons of Separation confronts the idea that what was once thought impossible can in fact be survivable.

The photographs in Seasons of Separation are accompanied by a text by the artist, as well as a short story by Rivka Galchen. Galchen is a Canadian-American novelist and essayist who is a staff writer for the New Yorker. Her story explores ideas of loss, grief, and finding stability again in a world full of change and loss. From the tipped in photograph on the cover, to unique elements of play throughout the book, Seasons of Separation shows there can be moments of levity and fun alongside the grief of changing a family dynamic. Published by artist book publisher, Anchorless Press and available in an edition of 150.

Hardcover, 115 pages, 57 images, 7 x 9 inches

English/French

Anchorless Press, Port Dover, Ontario, 2022

Design by Chris Tucker

ISBN : 978-1-927730-16-4

Kate Hutchinson uses photography in two distinct ways. Often she turns the lens inwards in order to examine and make sense of her own life and domestic environment. When this inward gaze becomes too much, Hutchinson looks to the world around her in order to create documentary series about the community and neighbourhood that she is a part of. Seasons of Separation (Anchorless Press, 2022) is Hutchinson’s third photobook. This book was preceded by The Park (Les Éditions du Renard, 2015), and Ulysses, a personal journey (self published, 2011). Hutchinson lives in Montreal and teaches photography at Dawson College and Concordia University.

The artist acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Concordia University Part-Time Faculty Association Professional Development Large Grant.