Pentimento
Cambodian children flashing smiles in front of mass graves are superimposed on pages of my journal. The effect is so eerie that it takes me a while to realize I am looking at double exposures—I must...
View ArticleWing Yee, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 1993
A photo recently exhibited as a part of George Webber: Portrait at the Art Gallery of Calgary.
View ArticleYours Sincerely
Creative inspiration and the meaning of art can be found anywhere—often by accident.
View ArticleWall of Shame
For centuries the Saharawis have called the desert home, but they don't belong here. At least not on this side of the Wall.
View ArticleMemory and the Valley
The city we know as Vancouver sits in the delta of the fraser river valley on village sites that date back to mesopotamian times.
View ArticleMemory Arranger
Who compiled the found photo album of women who worked together at the potato chip factory in the 1940s? The answer is in the images, but you have to know where to look.
View ArticleFighting Season
In Afghanistan there is a fifth season that begins in spring, continues through summer and fall, then ebbs in winter: it's called the fighting season.
View ArticleLand's End
The resource towns along the west coast of Canada— those that have survived, and those that haven't— tell a story of land's end, as a place and as a possibility.
View ArticleIt's 8:23 in New York
I can’t imagine Manhattan without those two towers looming over the south end.
View ArticleMichael Nicoll Yahgulanaas in his studio
Exclusive photos of the artist hard at work on RED: A Haida Manga
View ArticleClose Your Eyes and Think of Home
"No time to put on make-up, comb hair, look into a mirror." Ian Paterson on the idea of home.
View ArticleCollecting
Since June 2010, Brian Howell has been photographing shopping carts in Vancouver used by street vendors engaged in scavenging, recycling and related economic activity.
View ArticlePictures on Postcards
Pictorial postcards were authorized by the Canadian post office in 1903, and the next 25 years became known to postcard collectors as the Golden Age.
View ArticleThe Art of Slow Photography
Modern photography is steeped in the instantaneous: exposures are so brief that the unassisted eye in the same interval (less than half a second) would see nothing. The modern photograph always shows...
View ArticleUnit A, Ninth Floor
In his photograph, Unit A, Ninth Floor, George Webber captures the last haunt of Diane Arbus, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century.
View ArticleRemaking the Riot
Mandelbrot describes the photographic reimagining of the Gastown Riot, entitled Abbott & Cordova, 1971, by Vancouver photographer and visual artist Stan Douglas.
View ArticleInstrumentation
In his series of photographs entitled Disassembly, Todd McLellan creates portraits of discarded technology by taking apart used devices and meticulously laying them out, or dropping them from the ceiling.
View ArticleWireless
Libby Simon remembers the old wooden floor radio that brought Papa news of the war announced by the Voice of Doom.
View ArticleHub to the North
Poet Billeh Nickerson found a photo by Victor Post, official photographer for the government of Alberta, for 50 cents in a thrift store.
View ArticleI AM HERE
The self-focussed approach of social media is channelled into the vintage correspondence of "Wish You Were Here."
View ArticleThe Gutenberg Effect: Living a Handmade Life
Crispin and Jan Elsted produce books of extraordinary beauty using techniques and traditions that date from the days of Johannes Gutenberg.
View ArticleAfter Maggs
Arnaud Maggs specialized in portrait-style photography, which captured the subject in numerous profile and frontal views.
View ArticlePost-Apocalympic
Shots of abandoned Olympic sites–decaying sports arenas and decrepit swimming pools.
View ArticlePhysical Attraction
Individual photographs of couples are superimposed to merge two partners into one person.
View ArticleDying Light
The photographer’s darkroom, with its iconic red light, has long been favoured by makers of thrillers and mystery movies.
View ArticleTable Service
At Au Lutin Qui Bouffe, patrons were photographed pulling the tail of a beribboned piglet that was wheeled on a cart from table to table.
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