A native of Southern Alberta, Tom Willock has been photographing the regions landscapes, built environments, and wildlife since the 1960s, dedicating close to 40 years to working in medium and large format photography. A graduate of the University of Alberta and Carleton University, Ottawa, he began his career in natural history and photography at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa (1968-70). Tom conducted Wildlife Impact Studies (1970) and later was a Sessional Instructor, Lethbridge Community College, in Wildlands Conservation (1971-73) and the Technician for the Dept. of Biological Sciences (1976-78) at theUniversity of Lethbridge. He was also the Director of the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery from 1978 to 1998 and served as a volunteer on numerous Alberta museums, heritage, and wildlife boards.

As a natural history photojournalist, Tom’s vast variety of wildlife and landscape images along with portraiture, aerial, and industrial photography are widely held in numerous national and international public and private collections. Tom is the author of the natural history book A Prairie Coulee (Lone Pine Press, 1991) and has written numerous articles on museums, photography, and natural history. Together with his wife Susan, they own and operate the Willock & Sax Ltd. Gallery (est.1998) in Banff National Park.

Waterton – Vimy Peak

Evan Matchett-Wong is a self-taught hand embroidery artist from Edmonton in Treaty 6 Territory in Canada, now living in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. They are of Chinese (Han), Indigenous (Dene), and Irish descent. They are a member of the Two-Spirit and Queer community, and are a member of Cold Lake First Nations. They have been doing hand embroidery as their primary medium since 2014, and have since brought the use of watercolours back into their artistic practice.

Pyramid Mountain