About | The Project

The WorkSpace Canada Project was launched by Martin Weinhold in the fall of 2006 with the documentary mission to capture the present realities of work as complete as possible. The project takes Canada as a vast, diverse and complex sample for the western world of jobs, occupations and professions. Weinhold pursued the project constantly from 2006 until 2024. Over the years an overall portrait of modern Canada emerged, as he depicted people and their fields of work in the entire country. For research and photography he spent several weeks up to months in the respective area, province or territory. As of 2025, the project is considered complete, though complementing photography will take place in 2026. The outcome of the sister project WorkLife will be presented in Edmonton, Alberta, in the fall of 2026.

Here is the most recent media article: The Conversation
In Saskatchewan flying embers from a wild fire destroyed Robertson Trading, which burnt down to the ground in June 2025. The iconic store was a hub for the WorkSpace project throughout many years. Due to disappearing fish stocks on Grand Manan Island the fish weir was taken down where photos for WorkSpace were taken in 2016. On these current accounts Sara Dorow and Martin Weinhold decided they should point out to aspects of climate change and its effects on work reality.

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About | The Project’s Author

Martin Weinhold grew up in East-Berlin. He is a freelance photographer, author and instructor for visual media. He found his main artistic interest in social documentary photography. His independent art works explore their subject with great endurance and depth, the contextualized portrait is his particular passion. A main influence for his art practise are the portraits by New Objectivity painters like Otto Dix or Christian Schad. Weinhold considers the portrait process a true dialogue situation, the resulting photograph being its visible translation. He also believes in working on analogue material. In his eyes the limitations of this material are a means for keeping the artistic discipline. The same applies to the craft of photographic printing that he performs in his own darkroom facilities. Weinhold studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the University of the Arts in Berlin. For many years he was cameraman for various German TV channels. He is based in Berlin and Toronto.

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WorkSpace portraits presented in Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2023 / 2024 as part of the exhibition “Dix and the Present”.

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