A second sample of the Bunker Photography
Series of photos. Michael Steinhauer is well known in the Ottawa Museum community, as the Director of the Bytown Museum, Michael has been integral to widening the scope of the Bytown Museum mandate to include recent history of downtown, centretown and lowertown Ottawa. This change has facilitated the creation of new connections between persons presently living in those communities to their own pasts and the past of the neighbourhoods they reside in. Expanding the mandate of the museum has also led to more modern and innovative interpretation of the storied past of Bytown (Ottawa) using current technological innovations and trends to reach out to visitors. This is exemplifed in the interactive "Capital Neighbourhoods" virtual exhibit currently on display on the VMC (Virtual Museum of Canada.)
Michael's photos involve less often photographed aspects of the Diefenbunker and when those aspects are taken out of the context of the building, they provide interesting and unique stories of their own.
This series features the creative output of local
professional photographers who have been invited to the bunker to
attempt to visually capture the building, its contents and its
atmosphere. Photographers are giving special permission to freely roam
the Bunker and to choose how to interpret what they see. The end result
of this program will yield the first exhibition and publication of
artistic Bunker photography.
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