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Hannah Rickards: I am the infant and I am the bird
A vast similitude interlocks all, All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, All distances of place however wide, All distances of time, all inanimate forms, All souls, all living...
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Tania Willard: Photolithics
Photographic images have captured mere seconds and minutes of the ancient story of the sun on the land. Light has been making life, images, shadows and reflections for billions of years. Those...
View ArticleI’ll Be Right Here, and Here, and Here: Movement and Time Travel in Michelle...
The first thing I notice about Michelle Sound’s photograph Wherever You Are (2026) is the subject’s hair. I’m looking at the back of Zoe Ann Cardinal Cire’s head. One braid, fully completed, falls down...
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How are photographic artists engaging artificial intelligence?
In 2024–25, I was fortunate to get a front-row view of choices facing artists who seek to engage AI in a photography-based practice. I don’t mean artists who are merely seeking a new tool kit, but...
View Articlesagawakisis, our ancestors are always with us: An Interview with Jacqueline...
In Jacqueline Morrisseau-Addison’s public art installation on the façade of the Anvil Centre, the sun rises above a silhouette of prairie grass with the artist’s hand-embroidered floral beadwork...
View ArticleAanssamb: An Interview with Maria-Margaretta
Maria-Margaretta’s practice explores the ways in which her role as a mother and her deep connection to her ancestry and her Métis heritage converge to create her understanding of self. For the 2025...
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Banovan: An Interview with Ariyo Bahar
The photograph is a form of time travel. It circulates across time, prints, publications, and screens. The photograph’s scale and meaning is always malleable, adapting to its context and the...
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The Photographic, Understood as Sculptural
My initial entry into photography allowed me to engage with the medium as multidimensional – even when it is so clearly two-dimensional in final form. That position may seem like a conundrum, yet both...
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Time, Reflection, Balance and Symmetry Expanded
The turbulence of this world’s colonial history bangs in the brain a dreadful tune that is so loud and violent that it appears the only way out of its devastation is to keep singing the songs of...
View ArticleThe Coast Mountains: Recent Works by Edward Burtynsky
Glaciers hold great transformative power. Over millions of years, they have advanced and retreated, carving valleys, sculpting mountain peaks, creating moraines, and moving huge amounts of sediment....
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Karice Mitchell Finds the Power of Agency in the “Glitch”
Karice Mitchell’s photo-based practice uses found imagery and digital manipulation to engage with issues relating to identity, resistance, adornment, and the representation of the Black female body in...
View ArticleThe World is an Image: Photography in Public
When we speak of the world, we really only speak of an impression of the world. The world is an image, even when we have a scientific conception of it and assert: “This is so and so,” it is still only...
View ArticleFraming Desire: Online Dating and the Image of the Asian Woman
I browse my camera roll, sifting through both pre-after hours and post-hair appointment selfies and ask my roommate to AirDrop me that one pic they took when I decided to dye my black hair with an...
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Fashion Images: From between the Pendulum Swings
Throughout the course of my curatorial journey, the relationship between fashion and photography has fascinated me. For many, fashion photography’s worth is low on the perceived pyramid of cultural...
View ArticleCosmic Vision: Intimacy and the Unknown in Steven Beckly’s Commission for the...
Steven Beckly’s photographs often appear dreamlike and evocative of an otherworldly plane, a place that melds the physical with the psychedelic. In his installations, he regularly plays with, and...
View ArticlePicturing Place
Architecture and photography have an entangled history, made evident by the earliest of photographic images turning their attention to buildings and facades. Architecture made for an obliging sitter –...
View ArticleThe Insomnia of the Image
In early October 2022, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) transmitted a prime-time news special report on the effect of decades of conflict and climate change on Somalia. The focus was a small...
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Three Sketches on Photographic Excess
Capture 2023 Writing Prize Recipient My phone’s camera roll is filled with trash. An indulgent spread of under-thought, hot, steaming garbage. Nightscapes that were breathtaking when experienced in the...
View ArticleA Tribute to Andrew Gruft
Yevgeny Khaldei Berlin, Fall of the Reichstag, May 2, 1945, 1945 Yevgeny Khaldei’s 1945 photograph of the Soviet flag flying over the Reichstag in Berlin was an iconic image in postwar USSR, but...
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Ian Wallace Still from Film in Progress, 1973 Jeff Wall The picture you call Still from a Film in Progress was taken in the summer of 1973 in the back garden of my parents’ house on Cartier Street, the...
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