Sophie Bertrand - Ciel variable Magazine

Caroline Hayeur, Radioscopie du dormeur – Sophie Bertrand

Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Caroline Hayeur

[December 21, 2021] By Sophie Bertrand. “Radioscopy,” a term borrowed from medical imagery, suggests the observation of internal movements of the body. Here, though, it is a question not of X-ray techniques but of infrared photography that captures the motions of sleeping bodies. Radioscopie du dormeur, Caroline Hayeur’s most recent photographic project, plunges us into […]

Caroline Hayeur

Valérian Mazataud, Le plan – Sophie Bertrand

Authors: Sophie Bertrand

[October 27, 2020] By Sophie Bertrand One summer, photojournalist Valérian Mazataud was invited to photograph the tenants of the Corporation d’habitation Jeanne-Mance, situated in downtown Montreal. Mazataud saw this as more than a commission; it was a photographic mission that would enable him to encounter the different Montreal communities residing in what was dubbed […]

Rencontres photographiques de Guyane | 6e édition — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Léa Magnien

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Parenthèse(s) Du 6 au 30 novembre 2019 Par Sophie Bertrand (In French only) See the magazine for the complete article and more images: Ciel variable 115 – THE MARCH OF […]

Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay. Overview on the Tenth Year of the Photojournalism Festival – Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 115 - THE MARCH OF THE WORLD | Essays
Authors: Sophie Bertrand

[Summer 2020] By Sophie Bertrand For the last ten years, the Zoom Photo Festival been a mid-autumn feature in Chicoutimi, in Quebec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. La Pulperie de Chicoutimi, a national historic site and regular partner of the festival, serves as headquarters and hosts most of the exhibitions, with La Zone Portuaire, and other shows are […]

Le projet Polaroid — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 114 - MASSES | MONUMENTS | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: André Kertész, Bruce Charlesworth, Ellen Carey, Kunihiro Shinohara, Paolo Gioli, Toshio Shibata

[Winter 2020] Le projet Polaroid – Art et technologie Musée McCord, Montréal Du 13 juin au 15 septembre 2019 Par Sophie Bertrand (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. On sale throughout Canada until June 12, 2020, and online through our boutique.] Purchase this issue

Martin Bureau. Borders and Walls — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 113 - TRANS-IDENTITIES | Essays
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Martin Bureau

[Fall 2019] Par Sophie Bertrand [Excerpt] “The number of walls has tripled since the Cold War, and it has kept growing since 2001; it now consists of almost 30,000 km of armed borders.”1 This observation, made in 2013 by the researchers of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques at the Université du Québec […]

Valérian Mazataud, Grand Nord — Sophie Bertrand

Ciel variable 112 - COLLECTIONS REVISITED | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Sophie Bertrand

[Summer 2019] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montréal Du 28 février au 6 avril 2019 By Sophie Bertrand (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article. […]

Michel Huneault, Roxham – Sophie Bertrand, An Intersubjective Artwork for Rethinking the Phenomenon of Migrations

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Michel Huneault

January 19, 2022 [originally published in CV110 in Fall 2018] — Thanks to their inherent power, images may function to inform or to reinforce prejudices. For a number of years, photographer Michel Huneault has been concerned with deconstructing preconceived ideas about migratory issues. Each of his new series builds on the previous one…