Between issues, Ciel variable keeps an eye out for what’s happening here and there – under our sky and other skies. There’s always something happening in the wild and wonderful worlds of photography, image, and other forms of expression! Here, we share some high points of what’s being created and disseminated.
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Jeff Bierk
[May 6, 2021] A twenty-fifth edition shouldn’t be just one more event. The twenty-fifth edition of CONTACT, the Toronto photography festival born in 1996, had an air of renewal, due to the public health context. Without an opening date – “dates pending,” we read – most of the exhibitions will end up stretching beyond the […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Alfredo Bosco
[April 28, 2021] For ten years, the Humanitarian Visa d’or Award has been highlighting photography in the context of armed conflict. To underline this first decade of the competition, which it runs with the Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival, the International Committee of the Red Cross has put online a “retrospective” featuring photographs and statements […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 14, 2021] “Certain images still have the ability to feed our imagination with something other than consumerist desires!” proclaims Valérie Jouve, previous recipient of the Prix Niépce. Charlotte Abramow, whose Instagram account boasts 200,000 followers, declares, “Images are an inventive torchlight that is shone on a subject.” Yael Burstein says that she’s “enchanted by […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Joshua Bonnetta
[November 12, 2020] The Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal is kicking off, and, thanks to the pandemic, everything will take place online for three weeks – rather than the usual ten days. Ciel variable wanted to make its presence known, and our suggestion for you is Joshua Bonnetta’s very photogenic The Two Sights. Bonnetta, […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Marco del Pra'
[August 18, 2020] No photographers will be on tour in the Gaspé this year. The Rencontres internationales de la photographie, with its exhibitions scattered around a good part of the peninsula, is indeed taking place. But in these pandemic times, the current edition has been modified a bit. For instance, the Rencontres on Tour has […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Olivier Papegnies
[August 14, 2020] The World Press Photo exhibition, which usually travels the globe, will be on the road less during this year of pandemic. By the end of July, more than half of the 125 stops had been cancelled. All of the presentations kept on the schedule, including the ones to come, were to take […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Aindreas Scholz
[August 13, 2020] In midsummer, the international documentary image competition Earth Photo announced the finalists (54 photographs and videos) for its 2020 edition. Divided into five categories (Changing Forests, Nature, Place, People, A Climate of Change), the environment-related selection had no lack of both surprises and relevancy, such as the image of a mask that […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Douglas Walker
[June 3, 2020] The Papier art fair was postponed more than once this spring. In the end, it was transformed. And so, it is having its first virtual edition, after thirteen years in existence. It has increased in duration from four to seventeen days, and it has returned to being free of charge. Nevertheless, visitors […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Alberto Giuliani
[May 7, 2020] The nurse, her lips pursed, looks beaten down. But it is the marks on her skin that reflect the impact of the days spent at the front in a mask. All of Italian photographer Alberto Giuliani’s portraits taken at the San Salvatore hospital in Pesaro, a city on the Adriatic, testify to […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Donigan Cumming
[May 6, 2020] They say that he has an unrelenting eye and a creative fervour, that he is inspired by the desire to “destabilize and draw unremittingly from the margins of society, the watchable, and his own works.” He is Donigan Cumming, image artist, celebrated with a digital box setcontaining his twenty-six videos, as well […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Benoit Felici
[May 5, 2020] Forty-eight hours of virtual reality, headset included – sound good? PHI gives you the opportunity to experience it in the comfort of your home. Although the centre in Old Montreal must remain closed, it is mobilizing to make accessible “the best virtual reality films and documentaries,” delivered to you by bike, “ready […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: Michelle Forsyth
[April 29, 2020] Usually, May is the month for the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto. Cancelled since early in the health crisis, the 2020 edition may eventually be held at another time and in another form that doesn’t involve bringing together all of the city’s disseminators. Things will take place case by case. Nevertheless, it’s […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 28, 2020] The first Paris Photo New York fair didn’t take place as planned in early April. It’s been postponed, though, not cancelled. In the meantime, until April 30, the 1,200 works in the catalogue are available online. The images can be consulted gallery by gallery or via different search engines (photo book, for […]
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Authors: Ciel variable
[April 23, 2020] Even the huge Les Rencontres de la photographie in Arles is in limbo. Is the summer festival to be held, delayed, or cancelled? All scenarios are being reviewed and we are promised an answer before the end of the month. But “Les Rencontres d’Arles at home” is already underway. There’s something for […]
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Authors: Ciel variable | Artists: John Latour
[April 22, 2020] The Toronto online sales platform FFOTO, active since 2015, is rising to prominence in this time of physical distancing, as a certain virus is forcing the closure of galleries and the cancellation of fairs. FFOTO is doing more, however, than purveying an inventory of forty thousand photographs. Since early April, “FFOTO’s Five […]