Dan Bergeron’s Toronto Brick By Brick - Workers on Site
- Workers on Site is a three-part installation of large-scale photographic portraits that Dan Bergeron created for Evergreen Brickworks
- the series portrays more than 50 years of labour history on the site
- honours the past as it ushers the future
- six large - scale portraits of former brick workers from the industrial plant were installed literally brick by brick in the abandoned kiln building
- the photographs are slowly detoriating to show how the past makes way for the future. the present is merely a transition
- we most look forward when driving a car with an occassional view in the rear view mirrow
Dan Bergeron
- Dan Bergeron, who also goes by the tag fauxreel,
- best known for his billboard takeovers
- artist
- photographer
- His client list includes major brands like Adidas and Nike and he's been published in several magazines and completed CD cover art for a range of artists.
"With some initial leads thanks to filmmaker Catherine Annau, I was able to make contact with some of the former workers
who were employed when the factory shut down in 1984. I visited each subject at the their home and I shot portraits of
these proud men and installed their images in the factory's Kiln Building.
To create the brick pattern, I worked with my assistant, Joe Cornfield,
to cut everything out on-site as the bricks were of different sizes and the mortar various widths and heights
An arduous task for sure, but a testament to the men who helped to build Toronto, brick by brick."
............ Dan Bergeron
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Video - Brick by Brick
Life Size Photography
- 13 full figure portraits (12 men and 1 woman) installed in the south stair well of Building 12
- represent different trades involved in the recently completed construction of the LEED platinum certified building on the Brick Works site.
- A group portrait of members of the Eastern Construction crew is mounted on the new utilities shed in Building 16.
- These workers were instrumental to the transformation of the abandoned industrial site into what became Evergreen Brick Works.
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