The project is produced in association with Mount St. Vincent University and the Professor of Women’s Studies
and Political Studies, Meredith Ralston.
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The work was undertaken in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq.
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The project has the support of the Mayor and Councillors and the Chief of Administration for the Halifax Regional Municipality.
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Kent Martin - Photographer
In his 50-year career in filmmaking and still photography mostly working for the National Film Board
of Canada, Kent Martin has produced and/or directed over 100 films on a range of subjects.
They have played in film festivals all over the world from Berlin, Melbourne, to the Toronto
International Film Festival, Atlantic, Montreal, Hot Docs and Sundance Festival and they have been broadcast on the world's major television networks including CBC, CTV, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, BBC, ARTE, PBS, Prime and Netflix. His productions have garnered twenty Canadian Film Awards
for Directing, Writing and Producing, including two Canada Awards. He has been nominated
six times for the prestigious Donald Brittain Award for documentary filmmaking. The feature documentary Westray was short listed for an Academy Award. His first book of still photography, Peggy's Cove Barrens: Rocks, Life, Sea and Sky was published In September of 2021:
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For more information about Kent Martin: www.unceasingplay.ca
Meredith Ralston – Project Advisor
Meredith Ralston is professor of women’s studies and political studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her work has been in the areas of sex tourism in the Philippines, women and politics, homeless women and sex work in Canada. In her new book, Slut-Shaming, Whorephobia, and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, Ralston examines the common denominators between the #MeToo movement, the myths of rape culture, and the pleasure gap between men and women to reveal the ways that sexually liberated women threaten the traditional patriarchy. She is also a documentary filmmaker whose influential films include Hope in Heaven, Selling Sex, and Why Women Run (National Film Board), Wendy Lill: Playright in Parliament (NFB).
For more information about Meredith Ralston : www.meredithralston.com
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Kent and Meredith have worked together in the past. He was one of the producers on her NFB films.
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Kent Martin
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I first picked up a camera with serious intent in my early teens. I had some early success as a still photographer when I was selected for an exhibition of the work of young Canadian photographers sponsored
by the Canada Council. However, my 50-year career has been mostly
as a filmmaker. I started out as a free lancer and camera assistant but then was hired and worked for the National Film Board of Canada where I produced, wrote, edited, shot and/or directed over 100 films on a
range of subjects.They have played in film festivals all over the world from Berlin, Melbourne, to the Toronto International Film Festival, Sheffield, Hot Docs, and Sundance Festival. They have been broadcast
on the world's major television networks including CBC, CTV, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, BBC, ARTE, ZDF, PBS, Prime and Neflix.
These productions have garnered twenty Canadian Film Awards (Gemini and Genie) for Directing, Writing and Producing, including two Canada Awards and were nominated six times for the prestigious Donald Brittain Award for documentary filmmaking. The feature documentary
Westray was short listed for an Academy Award.
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Miller Brittain came as close to greatness as any painter who ever lived in Canada.
Kent Martin’s film is a brilliant tribute to a brilliant and self tormented man.” - Alden Nowlan
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Canada Remembers is a splendid piece of filmmaking. - The Globe and Mail
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"This ain’t your tourist’s Peggy’s Cove. Photographer Kent Martin sees things from a different lens.
- Chris Benjamin, Atlantic Books Today
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Photography remained my first love and in recent years I have picked it up again. My interests are wide ranging and include landscape, portraiture, street photography and photo-journalism. My first book of still photography, Peggy's Cove Barrens: Rocks, Life, Sea and Sky was published by Formac Publishing in September of 2021. Since then I have created another book about the Covid Pandemic called A Time Soon Forgotten which I have submitted to publishers.
I am also working on two other projects; the first is called The Halifax Project which is an attempt to document the
life of this seaport at this time in history. The second is The City of Halifax Project . The purpose of this project is
public education and fine art photography in the tradition of essay photojournalism. It presents a picture of
Canada’s newest big city, the Halifax Regional Municipality, and how it runs and portray the people who keep
it operating every day.
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Further information on my film and photography work can be found at : www.unceasingplay.ca
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Watch a Preview for Peggy's Cove Barrens: Rocks, Life, Sea and Sky ​
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I am a member of the ViewPoint Gallery Cooperative in Bedford Nova Scotia.
