Photographer
Jake Werner
Portraits
These portraits are of friends and acquaintances made over the many years of living on Prince Edward Island.
Landscapes
This is a collection of land/streetscapes taken on Prince Edward Island, New York City and Toronto.
Recent color
These colour photographs are a departure from the body of black and white images I’ve taken over the last forty years.
Latest Series:
The IslanderS
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These photographs were taken over a ten-year period, from 1970 to 1980. I was living on Prince Edward Island and working as a photographer. The photos were taken during various day trips into the country outside of Charlottetown. I usually found most of my subjects were curious about the cameras and quite comfortable with getting their picture taken. All the images were analog black and white negatives taken with a Nikon F and F2. I did all the film processing and made the original prints myself. These images are digital, made with an Epson photo scanner.
“When I point my camera at something, I am asking a question and the photograph is sometimes an answer.”
– Diane Arbus
“The way someone who’s being photographed presents himself to the camera and the effect of the photographer’s response on that presence is what the making of a portrait is about”
– Richard Avedon