photography

LIBBY SIMON
Photography
St. John's Park

This photo was taken in Winnipeg’s North End at St. John’s Park on Main Street, in 1940 or so. I was about five years old and the only girl in the family. An accident, my parents told me. A happy accident.

TERENCE BYRNES
Photography
South of Buck Creek

A Canadian memoir of black and white in America's unhappiest city, 1966–2011. Gold medal winner at the 40th Annual National Magazine Awards.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Remaking the Riot

Mandelbrot describes the photographic reimagining of the Gastown Riot, entitled Abbott & Cordova, 1971, by Vancouver photographer and visual artist Stan Douglas.

ANNMARIE MACKINNON, KATIE HUISMAN
Photography
Physical Attraction

Individual photographs of couples are superimposed to merge two partners into one person.

BRENT LEWIN, RONI SIMUNOVIC
Photography
Neon Hour

The Hong Kong neon photography of Brent Lewin.

Robert Everett-Green
Photography
Portrait

"I am I because my little dog knows me." Robert Everett-Green investigates the art of dog portraits.

Mandelbrot
Photography
Photomontage

Photographer Ross C. Kelly takes repeated images of cityscapes over a period of time in order to create collages.

LU QI
Photography
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 have put that roll of film through my camera twice.

ROBERT SEMENIUK
Photography
Nanke’s Home

A pariah in Botswana.

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.

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

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.

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.

Marc Josse
Photography
Lunar Chronicle

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

KAZUYOSHI EHARA
Photography
Lost Memories

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

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

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.

Photography
Korean Dreams

Deliberately obscured photographs mimic the way information is transferred in North Korea.

PAUL HOGAN
Photography
Images of Butterfly Garden

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.