After the Fact
The Earth is changing, our societies too, causing upheavals planet-wide. The rich don’t need to worry, they have the resources to construct their own realities and safe havens. For them, the rest of the world is becoming redundant. ‘After the Fact’ imagines what life in the First World might look and feel like for those who are now deemed surplus to requirements.
Author William Gibson wrote: “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” With that in mind, Tony Fouhse set out to look for and photograph aspects of Ottawa, his hometown and Canada’s capital, as it might be seen and felt in some possible future.
‘After the Fact’ is a sequence of photographs that points to the regression that’s in the air, to the increasing uncertainty and fear and changing political and physical climates that we find ourselves in these days. The series combines portraits, tableaux and landscapes into an open-ended narrative arc. The people, places and things depicted are real, in the sense that they existed in front of the lens, but the work isn’t about those specific locations and demographics. The photographs aren’t really facts at all: they’re slices of time and space that have been recontextualized in order to point to a future possibility.
