Our Grandfathers were Chiefs: Laurence Buttet-Roch’s Instagram takeover
Our Grandfathers Were Chiefs by Laurence Butet-Roch
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A fridge’s door covered with family pictures and other mementos. On the bottom right corner is the Chemical Valley Emergency Coordinating Organization (CVECO) Reference Card, outlining the different emergency codes and their meaning. The lower the number, the more worrying. Code 8 notifies the public of an internal abnormal occurrence at an industrial site, but that it doesn't require any action; while Code 5 is used to warn of an incident (spreading) outside of industry potentially requiring CVECO assistance. June 2014
Periodically, photographers take over the Maclean’s Instagram account. Here’s the story behind Our Grandfathers were Chiefs, a collection curated by Laurence Butet-Roch.
I’m Laurence Butet-Roch (@lbutetroch), a member of the Boreal Collective (@borealcollective), and I’m sharing photographs from my work with the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Southern Ontario, where over 850 Anishinabek people live surrounded by 46 petrochemical industries.