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Thelma Pepper told the stories of rural women, 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 fabric as the lives she captured on black and white film.
Ordinary Women. A Retrospective opened to the public at the Remai Modern on Feb. 13.
Author of the article: Matt Olson
Publishing date: Feb 18, 2021 • February 18, 2021 • 2 minute read • A collection of work by the late, esteemed Saskatchewan photographer Thelma Pepper has opened at the Remai Modern. Photo by Greg Pender /The StarPhoenix
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A collection of work by the late, esteemed Saskatchewan photographer Thelma Pepper has opened at the Remai Modern.
The exhibition, “
Ordinary Women. A Retrospective,” opened to the public on Saturday. The collection was announced last July on Pepper’s 100th birthday, before her death later in the year.
Thelma Pepper 1920-2020
Thelma Pepper receiving the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in Regina in May 2018. Photo courtesy Gordon Pepper.
I guess if you are going to write about 98-year-old photographers, you re going to have to swallow some hard news sooner rather than later. I m sorry to report that Thelma Pepper died.
She had a reasonably long 40-year career as an active photographer.which only began when she was 60. Life really begins for a lot of people at 60, she said.
She had a sharp interest in politics and especially in people. She was a photographer of Saskatchewan, the Canadian province smack dab in the middle of the country, due north of Montana and the Dakotas the middle of the three prairie provinces and the only Canadian province without any natural boundary (the Canadian Rockies provide the Southwestern border of Alberta). Born in Nova Scotia, she arrived in Saskatchewan in 1947, and later took up her Rolleiflex TLR with the intention of documenting the stories of