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As many of you know, video has played an important role in the Luminous Landscape from its beginnings.
Back in late 1999, Michael & I were driving up to his cottage in Muskoka when I broached the idea of doing a television series on Photography. Within only a few days, we started shooting material for that series - Michael was keen! We had accumulated a few hours of footage when we decided that being beholden to a network and their advertisers was a very real downside to the project. We would not be our own bosses. Another huge negative was the then-essential demand to fairly quickly produce a minimum of thirteen and possibly, twenty-six or more half hour or one hour shows so that networks could 'wall-paper' their schedules with the show - in other words put it on regularly and often. How could we accomplish that? I was a one-man-band and did not really want to hire outside help. In any event we couldn't afford to do that.
Well, we had both recently completed careers in business an...

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Christopher Sanderson
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Chris was a founding Partner of The Luminous Landscape and a member of the Board of The Luminous Endowment
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