Port Saint John Gallery \u00a0| \u00a0March 18-April 29, 2022<\/p>\n
Project Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n On April 20th, 2008, a man in Croatia died. As part of his post-mortem legacy, he saved the lives of two individuals in Belgium\u2014my daughter\u2019s and Freddy\u2019s. Ten years after their liver transplants, through this strange fate of a shared organ, they met one another for the first time\u2014Ceydie aged 13 and Freddy aged 75\u2014Freddy agreeably; my daughter with pubescent protest. Aside from an image of this brief meeting, this project is a visual portrait that separately documents the lives of Ceydie (now living in Canada) and Freddy, with the intent of raising awareness around the impact of cadaveric organ donation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Artist Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n A former professional basketball player, Cynthia Johnston holds an MFA in Documentary Media, a BA in Humanities and a diploma in photojournalism. As a mother of five, her photography practice includes exploring intimate family narratives alongside street documentary and storytelling for change initiatives with Photographers Without Borders In 2021, Johnston was the Runner-Up 17th Julia Margaret Cameron Non-Professional Woman Photographer of the Year, winning both Portrait Non-Professional Series and Children Non-Professional Series. She has participated in 20 group exhibitions ranging from Russia to India to the US, along with two solo exhibitions in Toronto at X University (formerly known as Ryerson University.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Freddy & Ceydie Port Saint John Gallery \u00a0| \u00a0March 18-April 29, 2022 Project Statement On April 20th, 2008, a man in Croatia died. As part of his post-mortem legacy, he saved the lives of two individuals in Belgium\u2014my daughter\u2019s and Freddy\u2019s. Ten years after their liver transplants, through this strange fate of a shared organ,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22232,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22231\/revisions\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathanselig.com\/sjac-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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