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Geist 65

Tilo Driessen was on his way to work when he saw the hammock strung up in a sculpture on the beach. "Luckily, the dude was sleeping," he said, "so I had time to set up in these difficult light conditions. I was struck by the practical nonchalance of

LOUIE PALU
Photography
Fighting 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.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Girl in the Photograph

When my friend Barbara heard a description of this photograph of a friend’s aunt near the town of Barrington, Nova Scotia, she was put strongly in mind of her own mother, who had grown up in Nova Scotia.

CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI
Photography
Greyzone

Last year Christopher Grabowski returned to Poland, which is his native country, after an absence of ten years. He found Warsaw to be exciting and vibrant and a scene of greatcultural activity.

Michał Kozłowski
Photography
Hunting Lodge

The Hunting Lodge is one of a series of annual photography events.

FAITH MOOSANG
Photography
Futile Gestures: Photo Albums and the Ecology of Memory

How do you know you’re a collector? When the thing itself is secondary to the act of finding it.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Hero of the Socialist Kitchen

The photographer was a young man working for Stav, a youth magazine whose title translates as “Attitude.”

Michał Kozłowski
Photography
Hub 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.

SUSAN BOZIC
Photography
He Said I Love You

The mythological story of the dating couple (or “dyad” in the jargon of theory) is the subject of Susan Bozic’s The Dating Portfolio, a work of staged photography that took two years to complete.

JOHN PASKIEVICH
Photography
Invisible City

John Paskievich has been photographing the North End of Winnipeg for more than thirty years, and the body of work that he has built up in that time is a revelation of the particularity of people and place.

CHARLES BERNSTEIN
Photography
It's 8:23 in New York

I can’t imag­ine Manhattan with­out those two tow­ers loom­ing over the south end.

CONNIE KUHNS
Photography
I AM HERE

The self-focussed approach of social media is channelled into the vintage correspondence of "Wish You Were Here."

TODD MCLELLAN, MANDELBROT
Photography
Instrumentation

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.

PAUL HOGAN
Photography
Images of Butterfly Garden

Photographs from the Butterfly Garden in Sri Lanka, a retreat for children traumatized by the civil war.

GEORGE WEBBER
Photography
Last Days at the St. Louis

In December 2006, the St. Louis Hotel and beer parlour in Calgary—once a favourite haunt of Ralph Klein, former premier of Alberta—closed its doors after ninety-two years of operation.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Jalopy World

Decades before there was a “Vancouver school” of photography (also known as photo-conceptualism), there was a Photography of Vancouver, as invented or discovered by Fred Herzog in the early 1950s, when he began taking pictures in a city that had bare

CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI
Photography
Land'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.

KAZUYOSHI EHARA
Photography
Lost Memories

Only loved ones remember what an Alzheimer’s patient has lost.

Marc Josse
Photography
Lunar Chronicle

This journey took me from New Orleans to Calgary, where I am right now.

GEORGE WEBBER
Photography
Leaving the Eddy: Last Days at the King Edward Hotel

During the King Edward Hotel's last year, George Webber became interested in the men who had managed to fashion homes of a kind in the decaying structure, which was finally condemned by the City of Calgary as unfit for habitation.

FAITH MOOSANG
Photography
Memory 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.

MICHAEL NICOLL YAHGULANAAS
Photography
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas in his studio

Exclusive photos of the artist hard at work on RED: A Haida Manga

CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI
Photography
Markings

For most of her adult life, my mother, Danuta Rago, was a professional photographer in Poland. In the early seventies she travelled to the Asiatic republics of the ussr and to Siberia. Her assignment was to take portraits of happy members of the coll

DAVID CAMPION, SANDRA SHIELDS
Photography
Memory 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.