Mine was the December image. The format of the agenda has changed little since then and is maintained by Sumach Press, which became the publisher in 2000.

Vanier College is a fitting venue for this work. Vanier's Women's Studies program hosted my 1st exhibit in the staff cafeteria during one of our early celebrations of International Women's Day in 1978.

More than 25 years later, gathering these individual agenda photos into a series has become a way for me to begin a retrospective look at my artwork. I see threads of my various projects and connections to issues of the second wave of the Women's Movement. The painting in the Passages 2000 photograph, for instance, was central to the 1982 exhibit Art et Feminisme that accompanied Judy Chicago's Dinner Party at Musée d'art contemporain. Several pieces from my project Relations were also included. Themes such as parenting, community life, education are evident. Even my work with the Montreal Health Press, publishers and distributors of information about issues of health and sexuality, is represented; View from the Rock is in Newfoundland, where we attended a conference in 1994.

Working on this series has been a learning opportunity for me in another sense as well. Rather than reprint photos from the past, I wanted to explore working outside the traditional black and white darkroom with digital printing methods of scanned 35mm black and white negatives. There is much to learn.

So thank you Communications/Studio Arts and Women's Studies for inviting me to exhibit in the context of celebrating International Women's Week: Joining Hands to Make a Difference. And thanks to Sumach press for continuing to showcase the work of Canadian women photographers, as well as challenging me to write about each selected photo.