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Portraits from acclaimed Saskatchewan photographer Thelma Pepper reveal untold stories
Thelma Pepper started off with a issue. When the photographer lined up a image in a remote industry off Freeway 41, in a non-public space in Sherbrooke Local community Centre, or throughout a kitchen desk, it was a conversation. “She experienced this uncanny ability to request just the suitable concern in just the ideal way,” her son Gordon Pepper said. Pepper commenced her occupation at 60 and died last December at 100. In that time period, she informed the tales of rural females, the elderly and newcomers with the respect, dignity and resilience they deserved. A year after her passing, Pepper’s artwork is as woven into Saskatchewan’s material as the…