Photo exhibition honoring migrants who worked during the pandemic
A New Brunswick resident decided to capture the people who stay at work to ensure a normal life for the rest of us.
Photographer David Champagne, who lives on the Acadian Peninsula in northeast New Brunswick, began photographing cashiers, delivery men, drivers, nurse doctors, hospital receptionists, caregivers and social service workers during lockdown. Those who could not be photographed in the workplace because of epidemiological restrictions, Champagne photographed at home.
The idea was supported by the Réseau en Immigration Francophone du Nouveau-Brunswick, an organization that helps French-speaking immigrants. It tracked down all the people in the photographs and persuaded them to tell their stories on camera. There are 21 portraits in all, and each has a QR code that allows you to watch a video interview with the person depicted.
The exhibition is called "Héros de l'immigration", "Immigrant Heroes". The photographic portraits are now on display at the Center for Arts and Culture in Dieppe, later to be moved to Fredericton and then, in June, to the Acadian Peninsula.
