George Byrne: Not Just a Photograph
George Byrne’s photographs capture pastel hues seen on the streets of Sydney, Miami, and Los Angeles. The photos are then rearranged into collage, sometimes to the point of near abstraction.
Oleh Sirant: Contemporary Portraiture
Oleh Sirant is a Toronto artist specializing in staged, large-scale digital photography, with a focus on contemporary portraiture. His digital images are printed on canvas with archival ink.
Photography: Art of the Sequence
Few shots can match the appeal of a well executed sequence photograph, such as this work by Vancouver-based Scott Serfas. Or the one below, by Jonatan Nylander of Sweden “Sequence photography is a technique of shooting a series of images in where the subject is captured in successive […]
Quick Hits: All About Women
A retrospective of the late, acclaimed photographer Eve Arnold’s portraits of women is on show through Dec. 8, 2019 in Italy (info here). Called All About Women, it’s drawn from Magnum Photos, the organization she was associated with from the 1950s.
47/150: The Remarkable Arnaud Maggs
Renowned photographer Arnaud Maggs (b: 1926 Montreal) was at the top of his career when he died in 2012 at the age of 86. The National Gallery of Canada had just opened a major retrospective covering four decades of his work. And a few days before that exhibition […]
Quick Hits: Jennifer Weihmann
The works of Calgary-based Jennifer Weihmann are often mistaken for paintings, with their lush textures and subtle colours. But the emerging artist’s extreme close-ups are photographs, of decomposing leaves, mushrooms, and petals.
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