Canada’s history of detainment camps on display at photo exhibition

For 30 years, artist Don Gill has documented sites, landscapes, and architectures that nation-states used to imprison and confine their own residents. Walking Lethbridge’s Exhibition grounds, Gill photographed the historical buildings, including the stables that were repurposed by the federal government into an internment camp during the First World War. This camp held immigrants hailing from nations that Canada was at war with, in a suspension of their civil rights. Now his work will be displayed at a photographic exhibition called DETAIN, which explores architectures of detainment.