Artsfile.ca – On Canada Day, 2017, while thousands waited in lineups in the pelting rain for a spot on Parliament Hill, someone was watching from a fourth floor window across Wellington Street.
That someone was the well-known American photographer Stephen Wilkes and he was watching and photographing hundreds of images throughout the day on July 1 preparing one of his celebrated ‘Day to Night‘ images as a gift to the people of Canada while we celebrated the 150th birthday of Confederation with a soggy ultimately jubilant party. Please see the URL for the full article.
![Stephen Wilkes, Presidential Inauguration, Day to Night, 2013, Archival Digital Type-C print on Acrylic [Edition #4/30], Courtesy of the artist, Westport, Connecticut](https://uss58003.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Stephen-Wilkes-Presidential-Inauguration-Day-to-Night-2013-300x350.jpg "Stephen Wilkes, Presidential Inauguration, Day to Night, 2013, Archival Digital Type-C print on Acrylic [Edition #4/30], Courtesy of the artist, Westport, Connecticut")
