Sean Galbraith

Urban decay and demolition by neglect is present in all urban settings. All buildings have a story, a history, a life, and a death. Industrial factories rust. Office buildings slowly crumble. Residential buildings are reclaimed by the elements. It is a rarity that these buildings’ evolutions are witnessed by those outside their walls. I seek to go where many have gone in the past, but few go today to explore, embrace, and bring sight to these spaces and environments from which others avert their gaze.

I am a self-trained and started photography in the digital era, though I now mostly use traditional medium and large format film equipment and I develop the negatives myself. I use a hybrid film/digital approach in my work, as I do final image preparation of my film photographs digitally. In doing so I’m able to utilize the best of both photographic worlds. My exhibition prints are digital chromagenic prints on Kodak Endura Matte paper, unless noted otherwise.

In 2005 I co-founded the DK Photo Group, a photography collective interested in urban subject matter. From 2008-2010 we operated galleryDK in Toronto, and in 2008 we were the subject of the Bravo! television seriesPhotoXplorers. In 2010 I was selected as a winner of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward international competition for Emerging Photographers.