Don Denton, a photographer with Black Press Media, has collected hundreds of photographs, magazines and exhibition booklets as well as conducting more than 50 interviews with members of the province’s photography community.
It was one of those things where, here was a person who was fairly prominent, but now that he was gone, it was quite challenging to find information on his photo career.
“It just really opened my eyes to two things: One, when a person is gone, you lose so much history, so much information.
While Phipps had several exhibitions in the 1970s, Denton has only found two surviving examples of her work.