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Authors: 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 […]
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Authors: Gabrielle Sarthou | Artists: Sarka Vancurova
[August 23, 2023] By Gabrielle Sarthou. It was in Montreal in 2020, during the pandemic lockdown and the even stricter conditions of the ensuing curfew, that photographer Sarka Vancurova started her series Street Portraits of Young Couples. Her gelatin silver photographs present young couples in search of physical and social connection during a time of generalized forced isolation…
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Authors: Marik Boudreau | Artists: Camille Maheux
[May 10, 2023] By Marik Boudreau, in collaboration with Suzanne Girard. Camille Maheux loved movies. She wrote letters with self-portraits and fragments of pictures, and she cultivated special friendships. Faithfully, she photographed her close friends, idols, and people she met…
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Authors: Jean De Julio-Paquin | Artists: Jules Gauthier
[April 11, 2023] By Jean De Julio-Paquin. In his series untitled En bas de la côte, Jules Gauthier explores, in text and images, the changes taking place in two Montreal districts: Centre-Sud and Hochelaga-Maisonneuve…
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Authors: Ray Cronin | Artists: James Wilson
[October 26, 2022] By Ray Cronin. The portrait-photograph, Roland Barthes wrote, is a “closed field,” the intersection of four forces or “image-repertoires”: “The [person] I think I am, the one I want others to think I am, the one the photographer thinks I am, and the one he makes use of to exhibit his art.”…
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Authors: Sophie Bertrand | Artists: Adrienne Surprenant
[June 29, 2022] An interview by Sophie Bertrand. Between two trips to Ukraine, where she was covering the consequences of the war that started on February 24, 2022, photographer Adrienne Surprenant talked to Sophie Bertrand about her experience in war zones.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Authors: Johanna Mizgala | Artists: Tim Franco
[October 19, 2021] By Johanna Mizgala Tim Franco derived the title for his photographic project, presented as a book, from a term in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four. In Newspeak, the officially sanctioned language of Orwell’s oppressive super-state Oceania, an “unperson” is an individual who has been not only executed but also erased from all […]
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Authors: Pierre Dessureault | Artists: Yoanis Menge
[June 2, 2021] Pierre Dessureault Presented during the 11th edition of Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie in Carleton-sur-Mer, Gaspé, Unuua (Nuit), a photo-documentary on hunting and the arctic night, was shot by Yoanis Menge in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet, Nunavut, and in Salluit, Nunavik. “In the course of a number of journeys in polar […]
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Authors: Emmanuel Simard | Artists: Sébastien Michaud
[January 14, 2020] By Emmanuel Simard For five years, impelled by his exploration of “issues related to nordicity [and to] the transformation of the land by human activity,”[1] photographer Sébastien Michaud travelled through the dense forests covering the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region and became involved in the lives of dozens of lumber industry workers. He took […]
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Authors: Reilley Bishop-Stall | Artists: Pat Kane
[October 27, 2020] By Reilley Bishop-Stall In the spring of 2019, Canada’s Changing Climate Report confirmed that the country’s northern regions are warming at three times the global average.[1] With permafrost thawing, ice caps melting, and rising ocean temperatures threatening plant, marine, and animal life, the Canadian North is easily and often invoked as […]
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Authors: Gentiane La France | Artists: Geneviève Thibault
[October 27, 2020] Par Gentiane La France Photographer Geneviève Thibault is developing an ethnology-oriented documentary approach that takes her into the daily life of others. Focusing on domestic objects, which she highlights with a soft, diffuse flash, she uncovers the organized disorder in the privacy of the abodes that she visits. Thibault immerses herself […]
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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 […]
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Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Charles-Frédérick Ouellet
[October 27, 2020] By Sylvain Campeau The title of a photographic series is the first contact that we have with it. It therefore, inevitably, determines what we will think of the photographs, and what we will find in them. This relationship, though primordial, often goes unnoticed. Paradoxically, that means that the title has played its […]
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Authors: Samuel Larochelle | Artists: Sandra Larochelle
[October 27, 2020] By Samuel Larochelle When the grinding gears of gentrification sounded the knell for the artists’ studios at 305, rue Bellechasse, photographer Sandra Larochelle quickly went to meet with the artists in order to immortalize their experience in the building. It was a way for her to pay tribute to the location […]
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Authors: Emily Bremner | Artists: Vanessa Tignanelli
[October 27, 2020] By Emily Bremner The dimly lit room, resembling something of a tavern, serves as an entrance into Vanessa Tignanelli’s Wilds of the West series. The young man in the photograph – RJ – is seen wearing suspenders. His black-rimmed hat, tilted to rest on the back of his head, reveals both […]