Discover Issue 127 | Sisters, Fighters, Queens
This issue’s dossier features portfolios by Caroline Monnet, Zaynê Akyol and Suzy Lake.
Free article | Charles-Frédérick Ouellet
On the occasion of the World Press Photo Montréal exhibition (until October 14) and the Occurrence exhibition (until October 19), we are delighted to offer you a first look at the entire interview between Charles-Frédérick Ouellet and Sophie Mangado published in the Fall 2024 issue.
Artists’ Projects | Lavender Promenade: Montreal’s Gay Village
A photographer of colours, Robert Walker here delves into the rainbow of hues – including lavender – emblematic of the LGBTQ community’s aesthetic. A stroll in the Village, with glimpses of the Pride Parade, in the colours of a fully assumed identity. Discover it here.
The Photobook | J’ai pensé à toi, une collection d’oiseaux
An accumulation of bird bodies, carcasses and feathers – victims of predators (or windows) – led Mélissa Longpré to develop a photographic project tinged with tenderness. Our contributor Marie Perrault discusses it here.
Biennials & Co. | Capture
An annual celebration of image culture, the Capture festival features a range of exhibitions in and around Vancouver. In this article, our contributor Karen Henry discusses a selection of projects from the 2024 edition. quelques-uns des projets de l’édition 2024.
Biennials & Co. | Circulation(s)
The Circulation(s) festival in Paris has been showcasing emerging talents in photography for the past thirteen years. Érika Nimis attended the 14th edition. Read her first-hand account here.
Artists’ Projects | A Photo Was Taken for the Sake of Not Looking
Around an image. Unable to remember why she took a picture from her mother’s hospital room, photographer Hua Jin shares her reflections in a moving and thoughtful essay. Read it here.
Artists’ Projects | Being Twenty in Quebec in 1969
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.
Documentary Photography | Cage Call
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.
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Audrey Genois, MOMENTA 2019: Broadening the Field for the Biennale — Jacques Doyon
[Fall 2019] An interview by Jacques Doyon Audrey Genois has been the executive director of MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image (formerly Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal) since 2016. She was assistant curator at the Galerie de l’UQAM from 2002 to 2016. Over fifteen years, she organized more than sixty exhibitions and ten national and international touring exhibitions, edited and coordinated forty publications on contemporary art, and managed the UQAM art collection. Among her […]
Abendlied, Birthe Piontek — Guillaume Tomasi
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. New York, Gnomic Book 2019, 112 pages Par Guillaume Tomasi (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Steve Leroux, Projections (2014-2019) — Franck Michel
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Occurrence, centre d’art et d’essai, Montréal Du 9 mai au 15 juin 2019 Par Franck Michel (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Michelle Bui, Centerfold — Jean-Michel Quirion
[Fall 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Parisian Laundry, Montréal Du 18 avril au 25 mai 2019 Par Jean-Michel Quirion (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.] Purchase this issue
Barbara Breitenfellner, Rêve (…) — Michèle Cohen Hadria
April 30, 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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