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