About Aydyn Neifer
I’m currently serving in the military as an Imagery Technician. My creative journey began in high school when I discovered a deep love for photography—a passion that’s stayed with me ever since and eventually became my profession.
I started my military career in the infantry before transitioning into imagery, where I found myself at the intersection of art and duty. Over the years, I’ve spent countless hours documenting life in uniform—not from the spotlight, but from its edge.
His Work
My work explores themes of presence and detachment, the act of witnessing without participating, and the quiet humanity of those tasked with remembering and documenting Canadian military history. Drawing on my military experience and artistic eye, I blur the line between documentation and fine art in this series.
Transient is my most personal project to date. It is a reflection on the lives of military photographers and the unseen role we play in recording history while rarely appearing in it ourselves. If we don’t record our own history, who will?
Artist Statement
We are the ones who watch.
Imagery technicians—military photographers—tasked with preserving what passes. Fragments of time that will no longer be but are archived forever.
We move through moments of joy, tension, grief, and ceremony, capturing what matters before it fades.
But this gallery is not about those events.
It is not about the images we made for others.
It is about us—the observers.
The ones behind the lens.
Transient turns the camera inward.
This is a portrait of presence without permanence.
A glimpse of those who step quietly through the world, collecting truth without ever becoming part of it.
We are trained to disappear—
to witness without being witnessed,
to see clearly, and be unseen.
But in these images, the invisible becomes visible.
You will not find the headline moments here.
You will find the stillness between them.
A quiet devotion. A fleeting glance. A breath held behind the viewfinder. You will find we who are sometimes welcome, and at other times hated.
This is how we move through the world.
This is how we remember.
“ We are trained to disappear—to witness without being witnessed, to see clearly, and be unseen.”
