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Jonathan Bright is a Toronto-based photographer whose work explores the boundary between interior and exterior space — what a window holds, what it separates, and what passes through. We Were Here was made in 2023 inside a hand-built church on one of the Little Fogo Islands, off northeastern Newfoundland. Raised in the 1860s by a community with no permanent residents since 1937, the church still stands — visited yearly when a priest makes the crossing to hold mass for the departed. It is a photograph about presence that has outlasted the people who left it. Bright is a member of the Art With Heart Curatorial Committee and Patrons’ Circle.