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FREDERICTON (GNB) – New Brunswick’s ‘Ceremonial Home’ will feature the work of award-winning photographer Thaddeus Holownia in a new exhibit which opens Sunday, Dec. 11, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The galleries at Government House will display more than 30 images of the Tantramar Marshes, taken by Holownia using a vintage camera.

“The public galleries at Government House are meant to show stories which are for, by and about New Brunswick,” said Lt-Gov Jocelyne Roy Vienneau. “These images are a celebration of the landscape and architecture of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy. They are hauntingly beautiful and timeless.”

Holownia used a Folmer & Schwing (Banquet) View Camera, circa 1926, and then created silver gelatin contact prints from 7” x 17” negatives. The images depict rural New Brunswick in scenes which evoke a simpler time – mounds of hay, piles of wood, decaying barns, receding tides.

Holownia is the head of the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University, and has had many public exhibits of his work since the 1970’s. He has been honoured by the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNB and in 2015 was invested into the Order of New Brunswick.

“I am so pleased to be able to share the work and vision of such an accomplished New Brunswicker,” said Roy Vienneau. “Thaddeus Holownia is one of our best, and I believe we need to share these positive stories as a means of empowering and motivating others.”

The exhibit, DYKELANDS – Photographs by Thaddeus Holownia, will be on display until Jan. 27, and is open for viewing on weekdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.