LOUIS HELBIG aerial art photography

Beautiful Destruction - Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs @ Ottawa City Hall Public Art Gallery 7 days/week 9AM-6PM until Sept 26, 2010

These villages & buildings were flooded on July 1, 1958 with the opening of the St Lawrence Seaway. 6,000 people were displaced.

These images are part of a new project, tentatively titled 'Sunken Villages' Photography is ongoing as is an effort to engage the living memories that keep these submerged communities alive.

Sunken Villages St Lawrence River

Church Yard Lost Villages D1121076
Boat Wake Lost Villages D1040136
Two Buildings Lost Villages D11207858
Lost Villages Woodlands C2530928 16.3x10.826rs10r50t0s75r1.5t3 8bit wmk flt
Bike Path Lost Villages D1121481
Lost Villages Wales C2530853
Lost Villages Aultsville C2531048
Lost Villages D1040228
Lost Villages Santa Cruz C2530900