“Nlaka'Pamux, B.C.” (Arthur Renwick, 2005) | MyNews | Seneca Students

Renwick’s colour photographs of First Nations churches in British Columbia, which were on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2007 at the same time as an Emily Carr retrospective, are an extension of the documentary impulse and subtle political engagement of the Totem photographs. Nlaka’pamux (2005), for instance, shows a simple log-cabin church with an elegantly peaked roof and whitewashed bell tower, set on a flat, brown landscape, the horizon line high and the sky above it radiantly blue.