galleryDK : About the Gallery

Origins
In the ruins of a steel mill on a cold December Sunday in 2005, six photographers came together to form the DK Photo Group. Though each has their own artistic voice, what binds them together is their common subject matter. Exploring the forgotten, decaying and derelict relics of society, this group photographs and documents those buildings which once stood as bastions of social institutions. Now silent and testament to the history of our social past, they are artifacts left to deteriorate.

Exhibitions
The DK Photo Group had their first show, "Forgotten", during the Contact Toronto Photography Festival in 2006 at the Round House Gallery of Steam Whistle Brewing. The work was very well received and the success continued in the fall of that year with the "Orphaned" show at Hang Man, the Gallery of the Artists' Network of Riverdale.

Now with only five members, the DKPG mounted their third show during Contact 2007, "DKonstruction". Though it was their best show ever (in terms of reception and sales), the experience with art101 was far less than desirable. After this last show, the group collectively decided to be in control of their own fate, thus they opened galleryDK and mounted their third Contact show "anamnesis" in May of 2008.