Salt
Spring Island Women's 'Preserve
and Protect' Charity Calendar 2001
Three generations of Saltspring women
made 2001 an unforgettable year for their community. They
collectively took off their clothes to raise awareness about the environmental damage threatening their island.
Tasteful time-keeping tableau The Preserve & Protect calendar features photographs of 32
confident island women - aged 18 to 74 - who
successfully worked to stop unsustainable industrial logging on Saltspring Island. Included on its pages are Saltspring Island writers and musicians as well as the high-profile Andrea Collins - former wife of rock star Phil Collins - and Birgit Bateman - wife and partner of internationally recognized wildlife artist Robert Bateman.
Priorities firmly in place
According to the Globe and Mail article by Kim Lunman, sixty-three-year-old island resident Mallory Pred said she didn't think twice about posing when the calendar was first suggested to her at a logging
blockade.
"I'm
doing it because I'm very
concerned," said the
mother of two, who is
featured in the calendar
standing next to a towering
Douglas Fir. "I will do
just about anything,
including this, to
save this island" she
told Lunman.
detail
from photo by Howard Fry
Beyond buff
Photographed with taste and sensitivity by fashion photographer Howard
Fry. The women are shown in a wide range of natural and heritage settings which reveal the beauties of the land that these women are pledged to protect. One group of women stands behind a banner in front of a logging truck; another has tea at an unusual press conference. Fry's artistic eye captures and contrasts the changing face of the island. Pristine slopes, giant trees and peaceful pastures are offset by log dumps, clearcuts and blockades.
Money raised from the sale of calendars is used for
preservation of Salt
Spring Island Lands. The Preserve & Protect calendar, inspired by the original Women's Institute Rylestone calendar, is unique in that it combines consciousness-raising and fundraising with nature, nudity and art.
