In 1974, when Robert Mellin first arrived in Newfoundland, he recalls observing a sense of things changing, of communities being abandoned, and fearing "many things were bound to disappear in the cultural landscape." The desire to record these transformations inspired Mellin, an associate professor of architecture at McGill University and a practicing architect, to embark on his present-day research: visual documentation of the small village of Tilting, on Fogo Island, located off the coast of Newfoundland. Mellin began his work on Tilting in 1987, when 500 to 600 residents occupied the community. Now, in 2008, the population is down to 250.
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