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Keep ReadingCarrie 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
Keep Reading“It’s the eyes,” she said. “We enter into a relationship through the eyes. I have a relationship with this person, and she’s responding to me, and the person viewing the photograph has
Keep ReadingSpotlight 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.
Keep ReadingIs Raymond Depardon a photographer who is also a filmmaker, or vice versa? The question arises as one contemplates the truly prodigious 60-year output of this enigmatic visual artist,
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