Ciel variable 132 - TABLEAUX | Essays
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Michel Huneault
[Summer 2026] From Trauma to Peaceful Memory par Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] In May 2012, Michel Huneault left for Japan, a country he knew nothing about. Not having been there in the wake of the “great Tohoku earthquake” (as the Japanese called it) of March 11, 2011, he had questions: “How can people live in so […]
Ciel variable 130 - PLANTS AND GARDENS | Exhibition reviews
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Thomas Kneubühler, Thomas Kneubühler
[Fall 2025] The Dividing Line by Sophie Mangado Optica – Centre d’art contemporain, Montréal 17.01.2025 — 29.03.2025 [EXCERPT] Thomas Kneubühler, a Swiss-born photographer and video artist living in Montreal, is interested in spaces to which access is limited. He designed the installation The Dividing Line to fit within one of the galleries at Optica. Immediately […]
Ciel variable 129 - FROM CONTINENT TO CONTINENT | Readings
Authors: Sophie Bertrand, Sophie Mangado
[Summer 2025] Agence Stock Photo by Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] In 1987, Robert Fréchette, Jean-François LeBlanc, and Martin Roy founded Agence Stock Photo in Montreal. The three shared a humanist vision of documentary photography and wanted to stay independent of the large press groups; they took inspiration from agencies such as Magnum and VU. Over Stock’s […]
Ciel variable 127 – SISTERS, FIGHTERS, QUEENS | Entrevues
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet
In this interview, conducted in the wake of two pieces of news concerning him (the publication of a book and the receiving of a prestigious award), Charles-Frédérick Ouellet talks about the backstory of the image honoured by the World Press Photo jury and about the approach behind his projects.
Ciel variable 126 – TRAJECTORIES | Readings
Authors: Sophie Mangado | Artists: Sylviane Van de Moortele
[Summer 2024] by Sophie Mangado [EXCERPT] “When a feminist is accused of exaggerating, she’s on the right path.” The epigraph announces what is coming. In Femmes photographes. Dix ans de luttes pour sortir de l’ombre, Sylviane Van de Moortele describes the battle fought by women in France against the erasure of their sex in the […]
Documentary photography
Authors: Sophie Mangado, Sophie Mangado | Artists: Ruth Kaplan
[October 18, 2023] By Sophie Mangado During her first trip to Roxham Road, in 2018, Toronto photographer Ruth Kaplan knew she was facing a complex reality that stretched beyond the few metres of the crossing from the United States to Canada. The conjuncture of forces at work was the first thing she noticed. She addressed […]