Donigan Cumming, Primer – Mona Hakim, A Vivid Framing of Exchanges

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Donigan Cumming

Within the confined space of a parking attendant’s booth, where doors and windows act as a frame, Donigan Cumming captured the gestures and expressions of passersby on the fly, producing full-length portraits or landscape-format images. Left as negatives for forty-five years, these images eventually appeared in an unusually sized book. While the atypical nature of this limited edition publication makes it a collector’s item, Mona Hakim considers its refinement to lie in its subject, an endangered one: physical exchanges and portraits of individuals drawn directly from public space.

Michel Campeau, Gestes et rituels de la chambre noire – Mona Hakim, An Affective Typology of Photographic Knowledge

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Campeau

A studious scrutinizer and inveterate gleaner, Michel Campeau offers a series of photographs conceived as a typology of the gestures and rituals inherent to darkroom practice. The work of a practitioner who brings images of the past back to life, his book presents, often with a touch of humour, an archaeological gaze at an almost-obsolescent technology. For Mona Hakim, the project takes a humanist approach, highlighting the labour and inventiveness of people who have remained anonymous.

Vis-à-vis, by Louis Perreault – Mona Hakim

The Photobook
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Louis Perreault

Louis Perreault’s ninth book, Vis-à-Vis, fits within the lineage of his practice as a photographer, evidencing a deep attachment to nature that he reveals here in a more direct way. Read Mona Hakim’s review here.

Louis Perreault

Daniel Hausmann, Backstage among the Urban Ruins — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim

[Winter 2023] Daniel Hausmann, Backstage among the Urban Ruins By Mona Hakim [Excerpt] I first encountered the work of the photographer Daniel Hausmann several years ago, during a visit to his studio, which had been opened to a group of guests. His urban images were unique – at once baroque, dark, and striking. Abandoned lots […]

Jocelyn Philibert, Metamorphosis of the real — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Jocelyn Philibert

[Summer 2022] By Mona Hakim. This major monograph on the photographer Jocelyn Philibert covers his production over more than thirty years. We know Philibert for his nocturnal landscapes focusing essentially – one might say obsessively – on the figure of the tree…

Sylvie Readman, Denis Rioux — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Denis Rioux, Sylvie Readman

[Winter 2022] Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal 8.09.2021 — 9.10.2021 By Mona Hakim [Excerpt] Presented in a single exhibition space and arranged facing each other, the photographs of Sylvie Readman and Denis Rioux highlight their common concern with the issues and properties of the photographic language within which the primary conditions of the visual and conceptual experience […]

Michel Huneault, On the Border – Mona Hakim

Documentary photography
Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Huneault

[January 13, 2022] By Mona Hakim. On the Border, Michel Huneault’s recent photographic project, begun during a residency at Centre Adélard in Frelighsburg in fall 2020, was transposed to an online presentation thanks to a highly productive creative collaboration with Agence TOPO1. Sixty landscape images and an equal number of […]

Michel Huneault

Judith Bellavance — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Judith Bellavance

Sensitive to memory, loss, and emotion, Judith Bellavance found the subject for her series Le goût de la durée in an Irish community in the Gaspé – more specifically, in a church basement frozen in time. According to Mona Hakim, Bellavance reconstructs “a personal story through the marks of wear that the site bears and the emblematic objects that it contains.” Favouring a form of “magnification,” she bears witness to the users’ desire to “care for” their living environment. At a time when the fate of our patrimonial and religious architecture is being challenged, writes Hakim, Le goût de la durée sensitively and poetically evokes reflections on our relationship with history and memory – on a heritage just under the surface.

Normand Rajotte — Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Normand Rajotte

[Summer 2020] This article was originally published in French only. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Sur les lieux La Castiglione, Montréal Du 2 octobre au 9 novembre 2019 Par Mona Hakim (En Français seulement) Acheter ce numéro

Guillaume Simoneau, Experimental Lake – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Guillaume Simoneau

[Fall 2018] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Rencontre photographique du Kamouraska – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Baptiste Grison, Louis Perreault, Martin Schop

April 11, 2021 [originally published in French only in CV108 in Winter 2018] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Claude Goulet, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Lynne Cohen

September 29, 2020 [originally published in CV107 in Fall 2017] — Claude Goulet is the founder and director of Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. This major event, has become an essential destination, with its outdoor photographic installations and its different thematic and pedagogical facets…

Le livre photographique : un état des lieux – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim

[Spring-Summer 2017] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Paris Photo, Offprint et Polycopies par Mona Hakim (French only) [See the printed or digital version of the magazine for the complete article.]   Purchase this article

Yoanis Menge, HAKAPIK – Mona Hakim, Countering the Negative Image

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Yoanis Menge

March 12, 2020 [originally published in CV104 in Fall 2016] — HAKAPIK did not go unnoticed during its presentation at Occurrence. The subject was an attention-grabber: a report on the seal hunt by Yoanis Menge, a photographer from Îles de la Madeleine who totally immersed himself in the lives of groups of hunters off the coast of the Canadian North…

Campeau, Carrière, Clément: Accumulations – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière, Michel Campeau, Serge Clément

September 24, 2019 [originally published in CV102 in Winter 2016] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Michel Lamothe, Fréquenter le paysage – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Michel Lamothe

October 3, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Pierre Blache, Non loin de Chandigarh – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Blache

September 21, 2017 [originally published in French in CV92 in Fall 2012] — You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Serge Emmanuel Jongué, Capturing and Narrating the Unspeakable – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Emmanuel Jongué

May 24, 2017 [originally published in CV90 in Winter 2012] — The name Serge Emmanuel Jongué (who died in 2006) was not unknown in the photographic community. In his important essay titled “The New Photographic Order,” published in 1990,¹ Jongué cast a lucid eye on the issues in Quebec documentary photography in the 1970s. His reinterpretation of the official discourse attached to this photographic school has become a classic for those interested in the history and comprehension of Quebec photographic practices.

Alain Pratte, Histoires – Mona Hakim, A Thousand Journeys

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Pratte

October 20, 2016 [originally published in Winter 2011] — Since 1973, Alain Pratte has produced numerous photographic projects, a number of which have been in exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including France and Venezuela. His work bears witness to passing time, the permanence or fleeting aspect of objects, unpredictable fates, and illusory ambitions.

Exposer la photographie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim

[Fall 2004] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Alain Paiement, Parages – Mona Hakim, Les constructions de la vision

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Spring 2003] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Abstract With Parages, Alain Paiement continues his research on the modes of apprehension and representation of space in his main fields of interest, dealing with photography, architecture, cartography, and painting. Here, […]

Alain Paiement, Refaire surface – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement

[Fall 2001] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Clark Du 10 mai au 17 juin 2001

Marian Penner Bancroft, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Marian Penner Bancroft

[Fall 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge) Galerie de l’UQAM du 8 septembre au 7 octobre 2000

Serge Clément, Persona – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Serge Clément

[Summer 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Occurrence du 16 mai au 18 juin 2000

Sylvie Readman, Convergences élémentaires – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Sylvie Readman

[Spring 2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Optica, Montréal du 29 octobre au 4 décembre 1999

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertien Van Manen, Pelle Kronestedt

[Winter 1999-2000] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Les axes de la continuité – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Alain Paiement, Carol Dallaire, Loren Williams, Lucie Lefebvre, Nathalie Caron

[Fall 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Carl Bouchard – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Carl Bouchard

[Summer 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Summary Carl Bouchard’s self-portraits are fictitious, emotional mises en scène, in which the laying bare of the body corresponds to the laying bare of feelings. Bouchard is a multi-disciplinary artist, and […]

Clara Gutsche, La série des couvents – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Clara Gutsche

[Printemps 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art de Joliette Du 18 octobre 1998 au 10 janvier 1999

Andrea Szilasi – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Andrea Szilasi

[Spring 1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Circa Du 9 janvier au 13 février 1999

C’est la vie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Joachim Mogarra, Lucy Gunning, Sally Mann

[Winter 1998-1999] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Dans le cadre de la 1ère Biennale de Montréal Du 27 août au 18 octobre 1998

Charles Gagnon, Observations – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Charles Gagnon

[Fall 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 6 mai au 27 septembre 1998

David Rasmus, Offrande – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: David Rasmus

[Summer 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Vox, Montréal Du 19 mars au 19 avril 1998

Raymonde April, Les Fleuves tranquilles – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Raymonde April

[Spring 1998] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée d’art de Joliette 21 septembre 1997 – 4 janvier 1998

Benoît Aquin, Haïti chérie – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Benoit Aquin

[Summer 1997] 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 contemporains

Pierre Guimond, Sept villes – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Pierre Guimond

[Spring 1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal Du 24 octobre au 1er décembre 1996

Bertrand Carrière – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bertrand Carrière

[Winter 1996-1997] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Du 1er juillet au 4 septembre 1996

Matière grise, les synecdoques de Louis Lussier – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Louis Lussier

[Winter 1995-1996] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. L’Espace 705, 460, rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, espace 705 Du 6 septembre au 1er octobre 1995

Ron Levine, Kinship of the Eastern – Mona Hakim, Ties to Down East

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Ron Levine

[Winter 1995-1996] by Mona Hakim Looking at Ron Levine’s photographs, I was reminded of a New York photographer’s humorous group portraits that appeared several years ago in the magazine Photo. These photographs of members of a wide variety of leagues and associations manifested a typically American mania for transfiguring ordinary people into celebrities. In mobilizing […]

Xavier Nuez – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Xavier Nuez

[Fall 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Galerie Stornaway

Randy Koroluk – Mona Hakim, Circumvolution

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Randy Koroluk

[Fall 1995] by Mona Hakim Randy Koroluk’s photographs do not lend themselves to being viewed in a contemplative manner. Our eye ceaselessly wanders from plane to plane, finally being propelled in circumvolutions in many of the works. In other cases, our gaze glides along the linear marks of the motifs that stream down from the […]

Mireille Laguë, (Re)cadrer le corps réel – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Mireille Laguë

[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.   Galerie Dazibao Du 1er au 30 avril 1995

Dieter Appelt – Mona Hakim

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Dieter Appelt

[Summer 1995] This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page. Musée du Québec Du 1er mars au 28 mai 1995

Bill Vazan – Mona Hakim, Carnet de voyages

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Authors: Mona Hakim | Artists: Bill Vazan

[Spring 1995] by Mona Hakim Bill Vazan’s fragmented photographs, one comes to understand the necessity of interrogating the very conditions of photography’s procedures, and consequently, those of vision. Conditions related to what Philippe Dubois adverts to as the “flatness” of the photographic image, an image “reinforced by the monocular nature of the optical device, [and […]