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Overview

Patrick T Wey is a photographer/writer born June 16, 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Patrick’s teenage years were in the sixties and he was drastically influenced by the revolution in the air. He studied film at Conestoga College in 1970 after leaving a prestigious job and career as a Masonry Estimator for G&A Masonry in Breslau Ontario. His love for writing, photography and moving images began there.

Patrick worked for various newspaper and magazines for the next few years. The Beacon Times in Port Elgin Ontario. Magazine covers for Shamans Drum and Alternatives Magazine to name a few.

He photographed numerous stars on stage, Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Black Sabbath, Super Tramp, Bruce Cockburn, Alice Cooper, Timothy Leary, Laura Huxley to name a few. As viewed and copywriten on his website.

Patrick Wey's thirty-five-year photographic career was celebrated by Canada's national television network. The CBC broadcast Patrick's surreal photo-animated study of a Cree ceremonial leader, Vern Harper entitled "Urban Elder” in 1994.

This was followed by the airing of the CBC documentary profile of Patrick's career, entitled, "A Path of His Own".

What others say about the work of Patrick Wey

Patrick Wey is internationally regarded as a fine art photographer. His work extends into commercial areas, including documentary, industrial and editorial photography.

"Wey, experienced fasts and sweat lodges from which tribal visions come. All this may help explain the visionary feel and psychedelic colours of Wey's imagery.” Photo Life Canada- Markham, Ontario

"A Path of His Own” is a near perfect miniature portrait of photographer Patrick Wey. It's the kind of high class program that seems to have almost disappeared from CBC, so it's doubly welcome. The profile was produced by Paula Neilson and wisely lets Wey explain his own very different ways of working. He excels in several fields: black and white studies of Mennonites around Kitchener, touchingly revealing portraits of Indian elders which tell far more than a video camera could do. His colour studies mix photography and coloured gelatins to produce colours as vivid as stained glass windows."

By Jim Bawden - The Toronto Star - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

"From the Mennonites of Ontario, to New Yorkers, to the Huichole Indians of the Sierra Madres, photographer Patrick Wey is capturing them on film with skill and finesse. The most significant aspect of Wey's work and years of mastered technique, is the timeliness of his re-emergence into the art mainstream.” By Lorrie Callander - Spotlight - Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Patrick Wey - A Celebration of his life

The CBC TV documentary profiling Patrick Wey’s career entitled "A Path of His Own" opens the way for the rest of us - the planetary community - to discover workable solutions to the perils confronting our ecology. The ingenuity of this artist and media producer in portraying the delicate magnificence of nature is at the same time a stark and timely reminder of the fragility of the earth and the deterioration of our living systems of which water is the foundation.

Patrick’s forte is a qualitative triangle of artistic, scientific, and visionary qualities  grounded in the practicalities of marketing. His artistic work is already known and recognized – a superlative example being the creation, production and directing of the surreal photo-animated study of a Cree ceremonial leader "Urban Elder" (the original) purchased by CBC Television.

Urban Elder is a compelling, photo-animated documentary set to original music. The Urban Elder of the title is Cree ceremonial leader Vern Harper, a Spiritual teacher serving the Toronto area native community. The video details the struggle of a spiritual traditionalist to maintain and foster his people's earth based faith against the shadows of the urban landscape.

Here comes the story of an Indian

A half-breed Cree from the north

His Irish father he doesn't remember much

Since torn from his dead mom at four

When he was a young boy in a foster home

He taught himself from the radio

The Toronto streets were his classroom

His mother's last breath, his life

You can tear a man apart for the colour of his skin

But you can't tear the Indian from his heart

When all the dreams are gone, there is one thing left inside

The People of the Earth must survive

Extract from Ballad of Asin (Vern Harper)

Combine art and science with Patrick’s visionary qualities and you will find ‘A Path of his Own’ is becoming a necessary common focus. He is a messenger of hope.

This is Patrick Wey the Artist and Patrick Wey the Poet. He is also a theoretical Scientist. Not only has he written articles on scientific subjects but in waternature.org he demonstrates and showcases his profound grasp of science and his technical expertise. Working with, amongst others, Viktor Schauberger principles – the originator of implosive energy natural-esque technologies – Patrick Wey the Scientist lays the ground work on intriguing relationships between the ethereal and material plains.

Patrick Wey is the owner, director, web-designer, writer, photographer of the following:

WaterNature – Our survival depends upon us to understand and implement the natural implosive bio-technological systems of nature. Most renewable or sustainable energy sources are not a permanent solution. Learn more at: waternature.org

iWaterEgg produces a TerraCotta water egg amphora for the storage of water to keep the water cool and the water energized. Learn More: iwateregg

Patrick Wey is the co-owner, web-designer, writer, photographer of the following:

Adopt a farm invites forward thinking people to reconnect to “their“ farmer. This site offers a variety of farm projects for people to adopt, to get involved, or simply to support.

He also founded the companies:

Inner Media ‘International Video Network'

Parallel Source, an Information Broker Co. dealing with exclusively Mankind Betterment Information (way before Google and the Internet)

LedKooLight, on the forefront of sourcing and distributing LED lighting before the Big Boys took over.

See more at patrickwey.com

International Bi-Annual Of Men Artists - Stockholm, Sweden

Mondial Arts Salon In Avignon - Paris, France

The SkyDome - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

59eme Salon des Beaux Arts in Enghien Les Bains - France

K-W Art Gallery - Kitchener, Ontario

‘Gold Award’ for photographic image in Stockholm, Sweden

Honoured and respected as a Ceremonial Leader by Hopi, Apache, Lakota Sioux, Ojibway, and Cree native medicine people…

THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF PATRICK WEY:

Sacred Earth, Brian Molyneaux, Duncan Baird Publishers, London, England

Herbalism, Duncan Publishers, London, England

American Indians, Duncan Publishers, London, England

Shaman’s Drum, San Francisco CA

Guitar Player Magazine, USA

Urban Elder, (video, booklet, poster and proposed book), Kitchener

Encyclopedia of Living Artists #7, Los Angeles

Encyclopedia of Living Artists #8, Los Angeles

Windspeaker - Canada’s National Aboriginal News, Edmonton

Hotwacks Quarterly, Kitchener

Wholelife Magazine, Waterloo

The Cord, Wilfred Laurier University Student Publications, Waterloo

Chaos Review, Guelph

ID Magazine, Guelph

Spotlight Magazine, Guelph

Phoenix Poetry Journal, Waterloo

Photo Life Canada, Markham, Ont.

REVIEWS

“There has been a strong public reaction to Patrick’s show. There are alot of images involved. It’s a very full body of work.”

Brad Blain, Director of K-W Art Gallery

“Urban Elder brings up the question, Why, in this multi-cultural age a Headdress in a Canadian City is less familiar than a Turban?... and this is where Wey’s Urban Elder most concretely succeeds”.

Andie Kaufman, Motive Magazine

“The work of Patrick Wey I find very beautiful and done in a very spiritual way. I believe it was done with great respect and I recommend it to you.”

Servando Trujillo, Apache Elder

"A Path of His Own is a near perfect miniature portrait of photographer Patrick Wey. It's the kind of high class program that seems to have almost disappeared from CBC, so it's doubly welcome. The profile was produced by Paula Neilson and wisely lets Wey explain his own very different ways of working. He excels in several fields: black and white studies of Mennonites around Kitchener, touchingly revealing portraits of Indian elders which tell far more than a video camera could do. His colour studies mix photography and coloured gelatines to produce colours as vivid as stained glass windows.

Jim Bowden, The Toronto Star, Toronto

"Wey's photos, currently on display at the K-W Art Gallery, range in style from stark black and white urban scenes to coloured, mystical visions of the sacred sweat lodge. 'There has been a very strong public reaction to Patrick's show.' notes Brad Blain, director of the K-W Art Gallery. 'There are a lot of images involved. It's a very full body of work.' Many native leaders from across Canada and the United States joined about 300 others to see the show on opening night."

By Katherine Hayes, The K-W Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

"Wey's photographs are at once powerful and soulful. Through evocative imagery he captures a sense of what are ultimately ineffable experiences."

By Robert Reid, The K-W Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

"The impressive body of work of award winning photographer Patrick Wey of Petersburg, is showcased on CBC's Sunday Arts and Entertainment. Wey is renowned for his photographic paean to human spirituality, especially the native Canadian community. His best-known work is An Urban Elder, focusing on Cree elder, Vern Harper. This program focuses mainly on his stirring photographic essays, including his human studies, reflective images and coloured gelatin slides.

By Bonnie Matlock, The K-W Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

"Nationally renowned photographer Patrick Wey presents a photo-animated work both sensual and mysterious that takes the viewer into a spiritual, visually hallucinogenic world. Wey's program includes Crow Space and Urban Elder.

The Princess Cinema Film Guide, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

"Wey, now 47, experienced fasts and sweat lodges from which tribal visions come. All this may help explain the visionary feel and psychedelic colours of Wey's imagery."

Photo Life Canada, Markham, Ontario

"Patrick is the consummate photo artist involved in a photo-journalistic project, Urban Elder, with Cree elder Vern Harper. This project has been featured at the K-W Art Gallery, with Patrick's beautiful interpretations of day to day native life and customs in the modern world. Patrick's work is currently showcased in the international magazine Shaman's Drum: a cover story concerning the treatment of native peoples within the prison system."

By Coral Andrews, The Waterloo Chronicle, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

"Patrick's photographic magic creates images that only the most vivid and creative imaginations could come close to surpassing. Critics have claimed he is an expert at documenting reality and I can only agree. As one views his library of people and captured emotion, it is easy to see why he has earned a reputation of such a high esteem."

By Carolyn Saunders, The Cord, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Canada

"Urban Elder as an exhibit brings up questions why, in this multi-cultural age, a headdress in a Canadian city is less familiar than a turban and this is where Wey's Urban Elder most concretely succeeds."

By Andie Kaufman, Motive, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

"From the Mennonites of Ontario, to New Yorkers, to the Huichole Indians of the Sierra Madres, photographer Patrick Wey is capturing them on film with skill and finesse. The most significant aspect of Wey's work and years of mastered technique, is the timeliness of his re-emergence into the art mainstream."

By Lorrie Callander, Spotlight, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

In Patrick Wey's words:

"I have been on a long journey thru the complications of the mind to see clear whenever possible. In images, i assume there is a magnificent shot no matter what the lighting conditions are, or the terrain one is in.......in words there is always a unique description that cuts thru everything and leaves one aware. You can not find this, in the most peculiar places."