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Photographs by John Paskievich
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Winner of the 2008 Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher
Award-winning documentary maker John Paskievich has made his name making films about places and people throughout the world. As the film reviewer for the Globe and Mail wrote, “Paskievich does not deal so much with people who fall between the cracks as stand astride them.” His films made for the National Film Board have chronicled groups as different as young Czechs trying to be North American Indians, the impoverished Roma community in Slovakia, and an isolated group of Orthodox Russians on the Canadian prairies. As a filmmaker, his work has been shown at film festivals throughout North America and Europe, including the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto Festival of Festivals.
In The North End, Paskievich returns to his first love, photography. His lyrical black and white photographs chronicle a community closer to home, the iconic Winnipeg neighbourhood in which he grew up. Winnipeg’s North End is the great Canadian melting pot, the place “north of the tracks” that welcomed waves of immigrants from central and eastern Europe at the turn of the last century. It is a place that spawned some of Canada’s greatest cultural events and personalities, from the Winnipeg General Strike to the Guess Who. Paskievich captures the vibrancy and conflicts of the North End and other urban spaces like it, places where history, poverty, and resilience come together.
Born in Austria to Ukrainian parents, John Paskievich emigrated to Canada at the age of five. He studied at the University of Winnipeg and Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto. His photographs have been exhibited at prestigious galleries and museums across Canada, and his films have been broadcast in Canada, on PBS, and on European networks. His photographs have been published in magazines such as Maclean’s, and in several books, including A Place Not Our Own and A Voiceless Song. His most recent film is UnSpeakable, a documentary about stuttering. Paskievich lives in Winnipeg.
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