“Simple Pleasures” At Owner's Risk Series ©1973 During the summer of 1973, I photographed three Algonquin families who, despite a lack of material possessions, "adopted" and welcomed me into their lives. To them I must have seemed an oddity: a young woman with no friends or family, toting a camera and wearning a brimmed cap to ward off the clouds of black flies. Whether they took pity on me or were simply amused, I'll never know. But they called me "Commandant," I presume because of that cap, and they warmed me with unremitting friendship. I will never forget them or what they shared with me. Their faces will stay with me forever. |