jeremybrake

What I’ve learned from my first solo exhibition.

If you’ve been following me on Facebook or Instagram you may know that I recently had an exhibition of my photographs, my first solo exhibition. The whole night was an amazing experience, I got to meet lots of wonderful people and they all had so many kind words for my work. I believe there was about 80 people that showed up in the course of the night and I tried to talk to all of […]

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Reflections on the past week

Hello everyone! This was an amazing week for me. I went to St. John’s for the first time in my life, I got to announce my upcoming exhibition, and I got to go on my first real road trip since coming to Newfoundland. Lark Harbour NL All throughout my life I’ve heard rumors about the “big city” that is St. John’s (If New York is the big apple does that make St. John’s the big

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What the Hudson’s Bay Company taught me about life.

Hello everyone, I am currently reading “The Company of Adventurers” by Peter C. Newman. It’s a very detailed book about the Hudson’s Bay company and how the fur trade helped shape Canada as we know it. One of the things that learned from this book is that it was a very long time before people really started settling and building homes in Rupert land (guess it goes to show how much the education system teaches

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Inspiration from Miyazaki

Today I want to talk about what I believe to be one of the most important things in life. The ability to bo a child. I believe that as human beings we only start to die when we start to feel as though we understand everything. That’s when we stop our natural childlike wonder with the world and start accepting our biased view of ow the world is. What I think our society needs is

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Newfoundland Journal Vol. 3

So this post is a bit different than most of the Newfoundland Journal’s I’ve done before.  I’ve been trying to write more about my thought process and this is a few paragraphs I wrote for no reason in particular, I just wanted to type up my thoughts in order to better understand them myself. I’m walking along the Humber road, the sun has dropped below the horizon and the sky is a bright shade of

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