Don Gordon was educated as an Engineer at Queen's University and as a photographer at the Three Schools. His photographic work is often black and white concentrating on the nuances of values in the medium. In the course of his engineering life he has routinely documented the progress of developing architectural and technical design projects as they have come into being. His inquiry project "Patch and Make Good" is an outgrowth of this documentary practice as it relates to his knowledge of buildings and architecture and his photographic practice using greyscale images. Buildings are seen as processes. These processes are fueled by time and implemented by the bodies that inhabit structures and adapt them for consecutive purposes and new uses.

His photographic work for the Malta Inquiry project will seek out and document the small details that add up to a record of human habitation from prehistoric time onward. Works will integrate image and text in a way that facilitates cultural commentary on contemporary experience.