You should know that on World Famous Design Junkies there’s a constant search going on for projects that document different parts of the world, especially small areas like cities and towns and even buildings and events. The design elements, the graphic awareness is what’s sook. What have we got here? The shore area around Lake Ontario – one of the great lakes of North America. Taken in the question – “what if there was no lake?”

by Michael Fuchs, photographer / designer.

Colonized Waterways: Lake Ontario — My project is concerned with the shore region of lake Ontario. These photographs are a medication on the infrastructure and spaces that are dependent on the lake. The question is how much do these places create perception and shape ones relationship with a landscape? If Lake Ontario is perceived as a standalone character devoid of it’s surrounding how does that change the perspective? What’s the effect of framing it only through it’s context? The resulting view is a narrative that compared to the romance associated with Lake Ontario becomes a more difficult story to tell. -MF

Most of the photos are speaking for themselves but some of them have ads or found write-ups that pair with the subject matter.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies environment category.

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