Photograph by Patrick
Canada Collection
Atlantic → Pacific → Arctic
A year on the road. A palette that grows with it.
The first collection is also the journey — a year across Canada, sampling color from the places we pass through, printing from a mobile unit, sending prints back through local shops.
On this land
The journey that produces this archive crosses many territories. Every leg sits on land with a history longer than the road, under treaties that predate the trip, and beside peoples whose relationship with these places is ongoing.
The collection is a record of color noticed. It is not a record of ownership, of stewardship, or of the meaning the land carries for those who live in long-time relationship with it. Those meanings are not the archive's to keep.
- Whose.land — Interactive map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties across the Americas.
This is a home I have roots in and didn't fully identify with. So the plan is simple: dip my toes in the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Arctic. Visit family in Austria along the way. Meet the people who make each place feel like itself, and let the palette show me what I've been missing.
Every color in this collection comes from a moment — a silo catching afternoon light, a brick wall someone spent seventy years looking past, a flower that won't be there next spring. We pull the color directly from the object, then photograph the object so the color stays tied to where it came from. The collection grows. The memory grows.
Sub-collections
Dispatches from this place
2 dispatchesFounder's Thoughts on Unichrome
Unichrome's mission is to channel the vibrancy of the universe — by pulling color out of real places and making sure it keeps its meaning everywhere it goes.
Photograph: Patrick
Midnight, on the road
Why this, why now, why Canada. Written at midnight, half a gas tank in, full tilt ahead.
Photograph: Patrick