Edward Hillel: Can You Go Home Again? Framing the City in Time, Place and Memory The talk focuses on a current photographic project that evokes the life of a specific street and its neighborhood over a 30-year span.

In 1987, Hillel published The Main: Portrait of a Neighbourhood, a book of photographs and texts about life on and around Montreal’s ‘main street’, Boulevard Saint Laurent. In 2017, he publishes La Main: Un Voyage dans le temps / The Main: A Journey in Time, exploring what the street has become since the initial publication. The dialogue established reveals a poetics of engagement between past and present, personal and collective memory,
film and digital, color and black-and-white images, offering a toolbox of ideas on framing and re-framing the city.