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Danny Singer
Sintaluta, 2007

Lightjet c-print
Image dimensions 56 x 221 cm
Image courtesy the artist

ESTIMATE $8,000 - $10,000

Since 1999, North Vancouver photographer Danny Singer has been creating large-scale panoramic images of main streets of small prairie towns across Canada and the United States. Many of these towns are only a stones throw from major throughways, and often missed by passing traffic. Singer was initially struck by the linear nature of their main streets and their possibilities for renewal, reinvention and growth. Noticing the absence of industrial or suburban sprawl found in urban centers, the main streets contained all the elements that defined the town, neatly presented within a discrete length. As George Moppett, Associate Curator of the Mendel Art Gallery has described, small town main streets are a “social, cultural and commercial gathering place…with its constituents of community hall, bank, restaurant, bar, curling rink, post office, hair salon and hotel…Singer’s main streets evidence a present caught between familiar ways of life and uncertain prospects.”  His exquisite pictures luxuriate in the myriad surface details of these disparate North American towns, capturing the nuances of place. Singer has also produced video works based on this subject. 

Danny Singer constructs his images by carefully stitching together many individual exposures using computer software, creating an all-inclusive, seamless panoramic perspective that can be 10-feet in length. This lyrical panorama is indicative of Singer’s highly specialized process and meticulous technique. 

Born in Calgary in 1945, Danny Singer’s photographic practice began after studying film at SFU. He worked for CBC during Expo ‘67 and was part of the legendary exhibition Between Friends produced by the NFB in 1976. He has exhibited across Canada and the U.S. and recently was in the Cologne Art Fair. He is represented by Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary.