The DK Photo Group is a collaborative artistic effort, drawing together a group of five
photographers with a common interest in society's architectural cast-offs. The group
formed to explore and document their vision of the urban landscape and a shared
fascination with decay and abandonment.
The urban world is filled with so many structures, some forgotten and others well-loved.
Why are some saved and others left to die? What stories do these buildings have to
tell? what scenes have these stones witnessed? Why are city-zens so obsessed with
erecting their monuments in metal and brick - and why do they so carelessly abandon
them when they are done with them?
The DK Photo Group seize access to the areas where most will not go. They do this to
bring back the images of what remains to share with the world. The rot, the neglect, the
careless abandonment. To present through a process photographic sociology what is
beautiful about these spaces, and to gain some deeper understanding of the built
environment and those who moved with it.
The DK Photo Group is Russell Brohier, Sean Galbraith, Steve Jacobs, Laurin Jeffrey
& Mathew Merrett. The collective owns galleryDK, a photographic gallery in Toronto
