Camp Picton Project

Camp Picton (at the time known as No. 31 Bombing and Gunnery School - currently known as Base31) was one of 151 British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) schools established across Canads between 1940-1945.

As a Canadian Forces Base (active from the Second World War to 1969) it served the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and the Canadian Army.

It is the last remaining site of its kind in North America with many of the original buildings still intact. A few of the buildings have been preserved for use as a museum.

Many of the buildings have been restored and the site today functions as an industrial park (currently owned by PEC Community Partners Inc.) and the Picton Airport.

Artist Statement:

My goal, while photographing the Camp Picton site, was not only to document the buildings on the site, showing the historical buildings as they were during the operation of the military base, the restored structures and abandoned buildings, but also to show the artistic beauty in the details of the decaying, abandoned structures, some of which are abstract images.

We will be updating this site with additional photos of this project.

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