The Photobook
Voyagements is a book that both is and isn’t a retrospective of Richard Baillargeon’s practice, because it is also a body of work in itself, for which he has revisited his images. Read Sylvain Campeau’s thoughts here.
Artists’ Projects
The recent discovery of photographs made in 1969 by then future filmmaker Yurij Luhovy impelled Michel Campeau to revisit memories from when he was twenty years old. From today’s perspective, he describes the path that led him into the world of photography.
The Photobook
In Goose Village, Marisa Portolese unearths a Montreal neighbourhood that no longer exists, reconstructing a family story in images, based on exploration of archives and oral histories. Read Michel Hardy-Vallée’s thoughts about her work here.
Documentary Photography
Mines – their depth and operations – are at the heart of Louie Palu’s emblematic series Cage Call, created between 1991 and 2003. The Image Centre recovered Palu’s photographs from oblivion for an exhibition, reviewed here by Siobhan Angus.
On Newsstands
This issue’s dossier features portfolios by Éric Tabuchi/Nelly Monnier, Suzanne Lafont and Bertrand Carrière. Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS is also available on our online store.
Biennials & Co.
To wrap up the year, we offer a look back at the Rencontres de la photogrpahie d’Arles. Read about what caught contributor Alain Depocas’s eye.
Documentary Photography
Ruth Kaplan focused her interest on the last kilometres leading to the border crossing at Roxham, where a nexus of ephemeral interactions emerge between migrants, volunteers, taxi drivers and police officers to prepare the last passage. Sophie Mangano introduces us to this work.
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Intimate Portraits — James D. Campbell
April 23, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — By James D. Campbell. Intimate Portraits brought together works by four artists whose preoccupation with the human body is a longstanding one: Donigan Cumming, JJ Levine, George Steeves, and Andrea Szilasi. Their works interrogate the nature of portraiture itself…
Denis Rioux, D’abord, ne pas photographier — Fanny Bieth et Clément Willer
April 16, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Guy Tillim — Érika Nimis
April 4, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler — Charles Guilbert
March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
Ansley West Rivers — Ariane Noël de Tilly
March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.
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