The Place at the End of the Rapids
by Phil Hill

The Place at the End of the Rapids was made during my first visit to my wife’s family in Canada since Covid.

The project follows the Ontonabee River and the chain of lakes that lead into the Kawartha region of Central Ontario. Its title is drawn from an Ojibway name for this landscape.

While making the work, I was reading Backwoods of Canada, a nineteenth-century account of the region. This text became a quiet companion to the work, shaping its structure and allowing my own movement through the landscape to unfold in dialogue with an earlier way of seeing.

The photographs are presented as a book by Out of Place, sequenced as a slow journey along the river and lakes. Alongside the images are extracts from my notebooks and reimagined fragments responding to Backwoods of Canada, written by the poet Harry Man.

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