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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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Becoming Visible: Sunil Gupta’s Portraits

by Laurence Butet-Roch
June 4, 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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Black Pride: The Passionate Art of Carrie Mae Weems

by Laurence Butet-Roch
July 17, 2019
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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Caroline Monnet: Reclaiming Space for the Indigenous Renaissance

by Laurence Butet-Roch
August 15, 2018
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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The Call of the Land and History

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
November 21, 2017
Essays/Photography

The documentation of landscape by photographers is as alluring today as it was at the beginnings of photography, perhaps because the genre offers a comforting niche for soul-searching and exploration of one’s

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CONTACT Festival & the Diversity of Canadian Photography

by Laurence Butet-Roch
October 24, 2017
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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Alec Soth: Reconfiguring the Narrative

by Marc Glassman
July 27, 2016
Photography

An interview with photographer Alec Soth regarding his show at the 2016 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

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Outsiders: Mavericks and the maligned are celebrated at the AGO

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
July 5, 2016
Photography

On the AGO's  Outsiders: American Photography and Film 1950s–1980s exhibit featuring the photography of Gordon Parks, Diane Arbus, and other artists.

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CONTACT 2015: History, Memory and Archives

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
May 1, 2015
Festivals/Photography

The Scotiabank CONTACT Festival repositions documentary photography on the high altar of art while connecting it to our past and our present.

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