photography

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.

DAVID MCMILLAN
Photography
Growth and Decay

The resilience of nature and the eerie spectre of a post-human world.

Sara Cassidy
Photography
Framed

Sara Cassidy examines the entire history of self-portraiture in Canada (from Geist 98, on newsstands now).

MICHEL HUNEAULT
Photography
Exodus

Michel Huneault's photographs of Syrian refugees in Hungary, Austria and Germany from September 2015.

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.

Photography
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

TRUDI LYNN SMITH, KATE HENNESSY
Photography
Fugitives

Fugitives in archives reveal the generative power of disorder

DANIEL KISS
Photography
Flights

"We were not even scratched—but the machine burned down completely. I will send some photos home."

PAUL SEESEQUASIS
Photography
Enclosing Some Snapshots

Paul Seesequasis on the photography of Métis activist James Brady.

Photography
Ectoplasmic

A look at the notable seance photography of Dr. T. Glen Hamilton.

CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI
Photography
East Side Story

Christopher Grabowski set up a portrait studio in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest urban neighbourhood, and took portraits of the inhabitants.

DAVID CAMPION, SANDRA SHIELDS
Photography
Cowboys & Indians

David Campion and Sandra Shields attend and photograph the Calgary Stampede, the biggest Wild West show in the world.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Dying Light

The photographer’s darkroom, with its iconic red light, has long been favoured by makers of thrillers and mystery movies.

Micah Lexier
Photography
David Then, David Now

A series of diptychs featuring 75 Davids: an original photo accompanied by one taken a decade later.

TANVI BHATIA
Photography
Close Range

The Photography of Ronnie Tessler.

Michał Kozłowski
Photography
Counter-Spells

Bill Jeffries conjures a counter-spell to reverse the effects of Bill C-38 by altering "spirit photographs" of Stephen Harper.

BRIAN HOWELL
Photography
Collecting

Since June 2010, Brian Howell has been photographing shopping carts in Vancouver used by street vendors engaged in scavenging, recycling and related economic activity.

MANDELBROT, GORAN BASARIC
Photography
City Pastoral: The Public Photography of Goran Basaric

When Goran Basaric first encountered the public spaces of Vancouver, he remembered the pictures he used to look at on the trains that took him to the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia when he was a child.

IAN PATERSON
Photography
Close 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.

DUNCAN CAIRNS-BRENNER
Photography
Casual Encounters

Behind every post is a real person wanting to connect with someone else.

ANNE GRANT
Photography
Beatrice Street

In the spring of 2008, Anne Grant began photographing a group of adjoining apartment buildings occupying a single lot on Beatrice Street in Cedar Cottage, a residential neighbourhood on the east side of Vancouver.

BILIANA VELKOVA
Photography
Arts and Crafts

From Biliana Velkova's Silver Centre Series, a found photography project exploring seniors’ leisure activities.

LOUIE PALU
Photography
Cage Call

Photos from the Hard Rock Mining Belt in Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Quebec.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Celebrity Cover

We were trying to find a cover image among a stack of Tom Abrahamson's photographs.A lot of intense look­ing went on, and very little talk, until Eve said: you know, if we want a strong cover, there’s really only one choice.