Little Burgundy – Evolving Montreal

After Griffintown (Robert Walker, 2019-2020) and Hochelaga (Joannie Lafrenière 2020-2023), the McCord Stewart Museum has selected Andrew Jackson for the third photographic commission in its Evolving Montreal series. The Montreal-based British-Canadian artist’s research-creation project focuses on Little Burgundy.

Andrew Jackson will explore the urban, social and cultural transformations of the neighbourhood known as the cradle of Montreal’s Black Anglophone community. He is particularly interested in the themes of family, transnational migration, displacement, trauma and collective memory. As an artist expressing himself through documentary photography, he has an impressive track record. His work has been published in many major publications, including the L. A. Times, The Guardian and Stern magazine, and is held in prestigious collections in the UK and the USA.

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson is a British-Canadian photographer and artist who has worked primarily in Montreal, Canada and the UK. He is an associate lecturer at the London College of Communication, teaching in the MA Documentary & Photojournalism program and has previously served on the advisory board of the Photo Ethics Centre.

His practice is developed at the intersection of photography and text and, most recently, focuses on notions of family, transnational migration, displacement, trauma and collective memory.

Evolving Montreal

Evolving Montreal is a series of commissions initiated by the McCord Stewart Museum to support documentary photography projects that capture the transformation of neighbourhoods from unique points of view. After Robert Walker and Joannie Lafrenière, who photographed Griffintown and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve respectively, the Museum has selected Andrew Jackson for the third installment of the series.

For his commission, Jackson chose to document the changes occurring in Little Burgundy, considered the cradle of Montreal’s Black anglophone community. Over a period of about two years, the photographer recorded some of the key sites and individuals that compose Little Burgundy’s Black community today. Jackson’s personal interpretation of the commission extends the purview of Evolving Montreal by exploring the notion of neighbourhood as a space that is at once physical and conceptual.