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Taylor Roades has been a working photographer since the age of twenty, and has travelled the world with her camera. Her love of travel, her curiosity in the realms of the sciences, and her compassion for issues related to climate change have led to a variety of documentary-style assignments across the globe. She was a part of Canada C3, a 150-day voyage around the three coasts of Canada on a retired Coast Guard icebreaker, and worked with Hasselblad in South Africa on the launch of their new X1D II camera. Her work has been featured in countless publications, including Maclean’s, The Guardian, The Narwhal, Canadian Wildlife, PhotoED, and Beside. She spent her time during the pandemic working on A Ribbon of Highway, her first book. Originally from Toronto, Taylor now lives and runs a photo studio in Victoria, British Columbia.
The highway beckoned and Taylor Roades responded. Looking at these photographs I'm reminded of the words of John Steinbeck: People don't take trips, trips take people. - George Webber, award-winning photographer, author of Last Call, Prairie Gothic, Borrowed Time: Calgary 1976-2019, Saskatchewan Book and Alberta Book Taylor Roades takes us on a classic Canadian road trip coast to coast, showing a less familiar viewpoint, piecing together a country of vast expanse with the mighty land as protagonist. The inhabitants are mere punctuation marks on the horizon. Clever visual pairings form a visual tapestry that weaves its way like a long Canadian highway. The outcome leaves an impression that there is more that unites us than separates us. -Clare Vander Meersch, photo editor at The Globe and Mail In a country that's always asking itself how it wants to be represented, Taylor Roades's photos resound with a vibrancy, resilience and solitude that many will identify as uniquely Canadian. Her photos are rich with watchful observations and a simple love of a complex land that stretches far beyond what most imaginings can hold. As an audience, we are wiser - and perhaps even kinder - for meditating on the profound candour Roades brings to Canadian portraiture. -Carol Linnitt, co-founder and executive editor of The Narwhal
