John Conway

John Conway has photographed the Saskatchewan prairie for many years and recently began to exhibit his work. In 2004 photographs from Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views were awarded two major prizes...

Sharon Butala

Sharon Butala is an award-winning and bestselling author of The Perfection of the Morningand recipient of the Order of Canada. Sharon was educated in small towns in Saskatoon, and at the University of Saskatchewan. She gave up work as a Special Educator to become a novelist, short story writer, and writer of creative non-fiction. She lives near Eastend,Saskatchewan, with her husband Peter on prairie ranchland that they have donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada

David Carpenter

David Carpenter received a Saskatchewan Book Award for Courting Saskatchewan, and then retired from academia to fully concentrate on writing. He was educated in Edmonton, Oregon, and Winnipeg, and began writing in Texas in 1976 during a heat wave when there was nothing else to do. It stuck.

Saskatchewan:
Uncommon Views

John Conway

Sharon Butala

David Carpenter

 Edited by

Decidedly quirky in their vision yet punctuated with breathtaking beauty, these photographs rejoice in a Saskatchewan landscape known only to insiders. With essays by Sharon Butala and David Carpenter, this fine blending of text and image will both surprise and invite wonder on the occasion of Saskatchewan’s centennial. From brash to subtle, John Conway's keen eye for unusual detail, color, and irony celebrates an unsung landscape with warm affection and brilliant light.


"John Conway's photos, startlingly original in their view of this province, have captured exactly what strangers have failed to see..." —Sharon Butala


"These images speak eloquently to me of the hopes of people like my grandparents, hopes dashed and tattered and rising once again, upbeat and sassy..." —David Carpenter

University of Alberta Press