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· Photo essay Danny Singer's moving pictures When the jurors in the Seymour Art Gallery's Discovery 2002 contest saw Danny Singer's The Yale Sub their verdict was immediate and unanimous. "Dark apparitions.. unforced, serendipitous, and true," said one juror. Another noted " a haunting quality and a depth and texture that make it unforgettable. There's a mystery at the heart of this photograph, and an openness to interpretation that leads the viewer to all kinds of speculation." There was certainly serendipity in the making of it. Singer was shooting a corporate movie for CN, called The People's Railway. "We got a call that there was a derailment in the Fraser canyon and spent three days shooting the section crew clearing this stretch of track. It was one of those situations where you work twenty-four hours a day until the job is done, because this was the main line from the east to the west. "This picture was taken as the first passenger train found its way through the debris. The guy following the train is Joe Morocco, the section chief, after three days of hard physical labour. The train was only moving a mile an hour, and Joe Morocco wasn't much faster. The picture is about what happened in those three days, the steam and the oil and the smell of oranges from the freight cars that had been derailed. This image is one of five or six that I got that day that are really beautiful images." Singer studied theatre at Simon Fraser University and made the first movie on the campus. This interest in movement informs his style and his subject matter. His latest project, to be unveiled this spring, is an installation for one of the new skytrain stations. It's a single image one hundred feet long, put together out of three hundred images and then segmented, running like a steel spine between the station's two levels. The Yale Sub M a r c h I A p r i l 15 4*