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Laurence Butet-Roch

Laurence Butet-Roch is a photographer, writer, educator, and PhD student in environmental studies at York University, where she focuses on environmental visual communications and decolonial approaches to photography, whether it’s activating archival materials or challenging Western ways of seeing and showing.

Ken Lum Embraces Ambivalence

by Laurence Butet-Roch
December 27, 2024
Photography

"Art embraced multiple voices by welcoming diverse people, technologies, and mediums. It celebrated the amateur or the non-specialist," says photographer Ken Lum.

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Disrupting Canadian Myths

by Laurence Butet-Roch
May 31, 2023June 15, 2023
Photography

Deanna Bowen's installationBlack Drones in the Hive reveals Canada's racist past.

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Becoming Visible: Sunil Gupta’s Portraits

by Laurence Butet-Roch
June 4, 2022July 25, 2022
Photography

Sunil Gupta's photography documents queer life in Montreal with poetry and pride.

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Public Art Programming During COVID

by Laurence Butet-Roch
November 2, 2021
Festivals/Photography

Can the adaptations forced by the COVID-19 pandemic inspire festivals to reimagine the relationship between artistic programming and public space?

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An Essentialism Crisis

by Laurence Butet-Roch
April 19, 2021August 19, 2021
Features/Photography

As the COVID-19 pandemic brings a new definition of "essential" work, how do photographers continue to document the events and experiences of our daily lives, and how do they do so safely

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Black Pride: The Passionate Art of Carrie Mae Weems

by Laurence Butet-Roch
July 17, 2019November 15, 2022
Photography

Carrie Mae Weems , who is the subject of the major career retrospective at this year’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto, began her artistic career in the late ’70s, when she started producing Family Pictures

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Digital Trailblazers: The NFB and Interactivity

by Laurence Butet-Roch
November 7, 2018August 26, 2021
Features/Industry

Since the creation of the Vancouver and Montreal based studios, interactive works and VR have taken off and the Board has expanded production in new media across the country.

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Caroline Monnet: Reclaiming Space for the Indigenous Renaissance

by Laurence Butet-Roch
August 15, 2018August 31, 2021
Features/Photography

Spotlight on Caroline Monnet, whose work History Shall Speak for Itself puts a mosaic of Indigenous artists, including Alanis Obomsawin, on the walls of TIFF Lightbox during the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

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CONTACT Festival & the Diversity of Canadian Photography

by Laurence Butet-Roch
October 24, 2017September 2, 2021
Festivals/Photography

The weight of Canada’s sesquicentennial is being felt across a range of cultural manifestations and CONTACT, Toronto’s month-long photo festival, is no exception. The 20 primary exhibitions and 17 public installations all

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Power to the People: Photography and Video of Repression and Black Protest

by Laurence Butet-Roch
February 22, 2017November 29, 2021
Photography

An overview of works that are part of Power to the People: Photography and Video of Repression and Black Protest at the Ryerson Image Centre

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