Manitoba-based photographer and speaker Tim Smith has the most boring name in photography. He has spent 17 years documenting life on the Prairies, including 15 years photographing the Hutterites — insular Anabaptists who live communally on colonies in Canada and the United States. His work is among the broadest and most extensive visual documentations of their culture ever produced, and has been published and exhibited throughout the world. Portions of his work from his Prairie and Hutterite projects are part of private and public collections including Duke University's Archive of Documentary Arts collection, the Province of Manitoba's art collection, the City of Medicine Hat's art collection and the permanent display at the Múzeum habánov v Sobotišti in Slovakia. In addition to long-term documentary work, Smith is a passionate speaker on topics relating to slow journalism, photographing sensitive communities or subjects, mental health in journalism and the heartbreak and joy of being invited into people’s lives.
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