Noises Outside my Door

A photographic exploration of life’s final act and the struggle for dignity and peace within the mirrored carnival halls of our healthcare system, just as the world around you faces its own pandemic battles. This series offers an abstract visual depiction of the very real emotions – some sweet, some understandably painful, and many shocking and disorienting – that came to the surface as I walked with my ailing father through the realities of our public emergency and end-of-life care system.

“Kevin’s work is extraordinary. He takes photography to the next level and infuses it with humanity. His installations are performances in themselves. He is not afraid of the personal and therefore allows us to look into another’s soul, finding resonances with our own. This piece is extremely personal, powerful and political. Kevin documents his family’s experience of navigating a healthcare system that is far below the standards Ontarians are led to believe we have.” – Beatriz Pizano

About the artist

Kevin Stanley Omar Jones is a Jamaican Canadian photographer and artist currently based in Tkaronto. Through his 17-year career in photography, his evolving body of work has been largely fixed along three separate overarching themes: displaying representations of Blackness, capturing the quiet expressions of daily life, and documenting the creation process and performance of dance and music. The unifying focus through these thematic streams has been his desire to build images of stillness and respite within life’s fleeting moments of intimate human exchange and emotion. He is currently a resident photographer at The Music Gallery and has also worked for many years as a photographer of live performance, primarily in music, theatre, and dance.