Published by Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2023. English and French texts by Robert Tombs and Michael Windover; 96 pages, 29.7 × 21 cm (11.7 × 8.3 inches), hardcover with printed slip case, Smyth-sewn binding, offset. Design by Robert Tombs.

“When Radio Canada International first erected its short-wave towers on the unspoiled Tantramar Marshes of New Brunswick, tears must have been shed. Now, thanks to the brilliant and poetic documentation in Ghost Stations, we get to witness the life and death of those towers, and to recognize that the marshes — nature itself — will always outlast humanity’s aspirations and depredations. The result is at least a touch cheering, but also poignant.”

> Blake Gopnik, Contributing Critic to the New York Times and author of the comprehensive biography Warhol (Ecco at HarperCollins, 2020)

“The juxtaposition with Soviet-era photography and cinema is striking, but the design also supports that history. It is beautiful!”

> Dr. Annie Guerin, Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University and author of Devastation and Laughter: Satire, Power and Culture in the Early Soviet State, 1920s–1930s (University of Toronto Press, 2018)

“One senses a deep engagement with territory, history, and memory, approached through varied media and forms with remarkable thoughtfulness. It is important and significant that the RCA fosters reflection in this way.”

> Phylis Lambert, RCA, Founding Director Emeritus, Canadian Centre for Architecture

“Ghosts Stations brings the astonishing rigour of Thaddeus Holownia’s landscape photography of the Tantramar Marshes to bear on a now-disappeared set of monuments to Canadian shortwave radio. This work is seductive in a very particular way, fascination growing from view to view. Stills from Amanda Dawn Christie’s cinematic treatment of the towers’ unrigging and toppling are deceptively cool. Essayist Robert Tombs breaks out of photography history to help us imagine the sound of the felling, as though the speaking giants were also sentient. Michael Windover connects these powerful forces to the wide, wild world of information control, the propaganda of nation building, and the lonely cabinet of the ham radio operator.”                         

–Donigan Cumming, photographer, multimedia artist and publisher of Falcon’s Guide (2023), a limited edition portfolio of photographs

SHORTLISTED FOR MAJOR CURATORIAL WRITING AWARD, 47TH ANNUAL GALERIES ONTARIO GALLERIES AWARDS, 2024

EXHIBITED AT MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS, HELMHAUS, ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND, 2024