Photograph by Patrick
GBAY Collection
Georgian Bay, Ontario
Steel, fog, and the particular blue of a great lake in April.
Georgian Bay is where this collection started. Industrial shoreline, soft coastal light, and a palette that refuses to pick a season.
Collected April 2026 · Georgian Bay, ON
On this land
Georgian Bay sits on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg — the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, the Saugeen First Nation, and the broader Saugeen Ojibway Nation — and holds memory of Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee presence.
The archive takes color from steel, brick, and water. It does not take the relationship those peoples have with this shoreline.
Georgian Bay is a sheltered pocket of Lake Huron most people drive past without noticing. The communities along its shore — Owen Sound, Meaford, Collingwood, Thornbury — built themselves around shipbuilding, grain, orchards, and weather. The color story here is cold water and warm brick: industrial edge softened by mist. The palette shifts with the hour and the season; a silo at noon and the same silo at four is not the same silo.
This is the collection that started everything. The first print this project ever made on the mobile unit was GBAY-00077. The sampling process we use now was refined here, on this water.