MY NAME IS KEN TURNER. I AM AN EDUCATOR, A PHOTOGRAPHER, AN ARTIST, AN AUTHOR, AN INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER, AS WELL AS A HUSBAND, AND A DAD!
MY CREATIVE WORK IS A REFLECTION OF THE INFLUENCES THAT I GREW UP WITH WHICH SHAPED THE PERSON I AM TODAY, MAINLY THROUGH A VARIETY OF POP CULTURE EXPERIENCES SUCH AS STAR WARS, THE MUPPETS, AND A LOT OF TV.
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IT'S THROUGH THESE EXPERIENCES THAT I DEVELOPED MY SENSE OF HUMOUR, MY CREATIVITY, MY LOVE OF LEARNING (AND, IN TURN, TEACHING), AND MY LOVE OF WORLD BUILDING AND STORYTELLING.
MY PHOTO WORK HAS BEEN DISPLAYED AT McMASTER'S INNOVATION PARK, AND FEATURED ON SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITES AND VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS. I HAVE ALSO WRITTEN FOUR BOOKS -- OLD HABITS AND OTHER STORIES (2014) IS A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES IN THE STYLE OF STEPHEN KING AND THE TWILIGHT ZONE; THE GEMSTONE AFFAIR (2019), THE ANNIVERSARY AFFAIR (2020), AND THE MISTER JIM AFFAIR (2021) ARE 1940S PULP NOIR DETECTIVE STORIES THAT FOLLOW A HARDBOILED P.I. NAMED MAX GOODBRAND WHO MUST FIGHT NAZIS, SOLVE KIDNAPPINGS AND MURDERS, AND COME TO TERMS WITH THE CHANGING WORLD AROUND HIM FOLLOWING THE WAR.
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AS A FILMMAKER, I HAVE BEEN A PART OF THE HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL FOR OVER 10 YEARS. MY FILM PARTNER AND I HAVE HAD OUR SHORT FILMS FEATURED IN FILM FESTIVALS ACROSS CANADA AND THE US, AND THEY HAVE ALSO WON SEVERAL AWARDS. MY ONLY FEATURE LENGTH FILM, IT CAME FROM URANUS (2014) IS A 1950s SCIENCE FICTION SPOOF FEATURING A CAST OF CUSTOM BUILT PUPPETS (ANOTHER OF MY MANY CREATIVE ENDEAVOURS). IT WAS SELECTED AS THE CLOSING FILM FOR HFF 2014.
