About
Working primarily with photography, Aaron Friend Lettner traverses the crossways of memory, culture and place. His work is distinguished by its esoteric flair and is, above all, a ritual act through which seen and unseen worlds elide.
An intuitive bookmaker, Aaron received the inaugural Burtynsky Grant for Doorways (2017) and a Canadian national book design award from the Alcuin Society for anglepoise (2021), which exhibited coast-to-coast across Canada, as well as in Japan and Germany. His books are held at the Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum (German Museum of Books and Writing) and The Special Collections and Rare Books division of W.A.C. Bennett Library at Canada’s Simon Fraser University.
With trust and connection as pillars of conduct, Aaron draws deeply from the spiritual roots of theatre in the preparation and presentation of each work. Adjacently, he infuses his experience as an image-and-book maker into programs that supply youth with skills related to visual storytelling, as well as hand-binding books.
Forms of Work
Visual Storytelling
What’s unique about this form?
These workshops were initially developed for high school-age students, but are adaptable in form and length. They supply basic techniques for telling a story with images, as well as hand-binding a book.
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Collaborative bookmaking
What’s unique about this form?
Dædu makes unusual books.
With an award-winning catalogue of collaborative works made between artists of different generations and vocations, Dædu is a crossway for creative connection. The archaisms of bookmaking are given voice around a table fitted with modern imaginations of the art.
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