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.
Discover issue 126 | Trajectories
This issue’s dossier features portfolios by Francis Alÿs, Patrick Beaulieu and Justin Wonnacott, on the theme of Trajectories.
Artists’ Projects | Hua Jin, 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 | Louie Palu, 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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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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