Taylor Roades (b. 1990) is a Canadian documentary photographer based in Victoria, British Columbia. Her work is grounded in place and the natural sciences, exploring our connection to land, culture, climate and the environment.






































































  
         





            05.T-44 Orca Whale Reconstruction

Photographed: July 2019
Location: Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
Environment and Climate

Published: Breakwater Magazine 2019
 

Rebuilding an orca whale’s skeleton so it appears to come back to life is no easy task. But on Salt Spring Island, tucked behind a row of cedars, is a workshop filled to the brim with bones from the deep, and a group of people dedicated to putting them back together again.

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Mike DeRoos inspecting the belly of Orca T-44. DeRoos and his wife Michi reassemble the cleaned marine mammal bones in their workshop. From an inert puzzle of bone and steel, the couple resurrect T44 in a true-to-nature pose, giving the Orca whale a second life.
Orca teeth laid out on a blanket
T-44 Installed at the Whale Interpretive Centre in Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island, Canada.