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Oakville Historical Society

Layering Through TIme

A photographic exploration of history's quiet presence in everyday spaces

By Andrew Kerfoot 

The project juxtaposes archival photographs and contemporary composites to create visual timelines that compress and overlap eras. Through rephotography and visual blending, it aims to collapse time, revealing how personal and collective histories continue to shape our environments and identities. By combining images from libraries, public archives and modern life, it invites viewers to consider the hidden stories embedded in their surroundings. Each piece is a temporal collage, where gestures, fashions and domestic details echo across decades, to make history accessible and emotionally resonant, less like something fixed in the past and more like a living thread woven through the present.

Location:

View the exhibit at our offices at 110 King St, Oakville

Date & Time:

Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 - 4:30pm

Now through late August 2025

Andrew Kerfoot

Andrew Kerfoot is a Canadian photographer who explores the intersection of memory, identity and environment. With a commercial and lifestyle photography background, Kerfoot blends traditional image-making with historical research and modern digital techniques. His practice often examines how people interact with space, both physically and emotionally, bringing intimacy and nuance to every frame. Based in Oakville since 2022, Kerfoot's recent projects investigate time as a layered construct, fusing past and present through photographic narratives that challenge linear storytelling.