Reave Dennison Artist’s Tour of Tree Work at Pale Fire
March 20, 2026

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Reave Dennison Artist’s Tour of Tree Work at Pale Fire

March 20, 2026 | 6 PM

Join Reave Dennison, photographer and silver gelatin printmaker for a tour of his exhibition, Tree Work at Pale Fire which presents a selection of new black-and-white photographs that Dennison took while working as a beachcomber, sawyer, and arborist over the past five years. The images portray the environments, people, material culture, and technical craft of these disciplines.

The private tour begins at 6pm and will be followed by the opening reception for the exhibition at 7pm.

Dennison focuses his camera on the conditions he works in, so that he can shoot candidly and intimately. Forestry is a primary industry in British Columbia, comprising hundreds of responsibilities and skill sets. Yet there is relatively little familiarity with the roles these people play in the economy, or the impact that shifting political, ecological, and technological conditions have on the social fabric of the province.

About the artist:

Reave Dennison is a photographer living and working on Mayne Island, British Columbia. Actively working within the trades, his primary focus is documenting labour in the Pacific Northwest. He recently presented his project Under 60 Tons at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria (2025), the Vancouver Maritime Museum (2023) and the Gibson’s Public Art Gallery (2022). A forthcoming artist book of this project is being co-published by Pale Fire and Information Office (2026).