Stuck in the Middle 2 - Bartley Kives

. .

Résumé :
Somewhere between North Dakota and Nunavut sits a curious land with a coastline patrolled by polar bears, highways lined with monuments to household produce and dinner plates drenched in a gluey condiment known as honey dill sauce. This is Manitoba, a province that has captured the imagination of well, maybe dozens of people around the world for more than a century. To many Canadians, Manitoba is nothing but canola, snow and mosquitoes. To people in Winnipeg, its capital and largest city, its that place where the flood happens three out of every five years. So what exactly is Manitoba? Its one of the newest places on Earth, carved by glaciers and shaped by meltwater. Its one of the most Indigenous places on Earth, as all of its residents are beginning to comprehend and respect. But its also a vast and largely empty land that lacks a singular identity, partly because of its vastness and emptiness but also because most of its population barricades itself within Winnipegs city limits. Stuck In The Middle: Defining Views of Manitoba findsphotographer Bryan Scott and journalist Bartley Kives venturing beyond the Perimeter Highway to explore the architecture, landscapes and waterways of a province they know and love but may never truly understand. Armed with passionate ambivalence and an unwavering commitment to equivocation, Scott and Kives paint a perfectly imprecise picture of Manitoba for the rest of the planet to appreciate and revile and ultimately ignore.

Biographie:

Winnipeg photographer BRYAN SCOTT has been documenting the city's architecture and streetscapes since 2005. After studying architecture and graphic design, he works in advertising while making daily contributions to his photo website Winnipeg Love Hate. A collection of photos from the site was published in 2010 and his first collaboration with author Bartley Kives, Stuck In The Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg, was published by Great Plains Publications in 2013. It won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award the following year.

Lifelong Manitoban Bartley Kives has spent three decades in journalism, covering politics, music, food, science and outdoor recreation at CBC and other publications. He's the author of the Canadian bestseller A Daytripper's Guide to Manitoba: Exploring Canada's Undiscovered Province. He's also the co-author of two collaborations with photographer Bryan Scott: Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg -- the 2014 winner of the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award -- and Stuck In The Middle 2: Defining Views of Manitoba. His work has also appeared in publications such as The Guardian and Explore magazine.