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Quick Hits: Snowmobile Art
Laura Millard creates her symmetrical images while circling aboard a snowmobile on a large frozen lake and simultaneously taking photographs from a drone cruising above. Random animal markings and...
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Helga Paris: Berlin behind the wall
Self-taught photographer Helga Paris (German, born 1938) was trained in fashion design but began taking photos seriously in 1967, leading to life as a freelancer in the German Democratic Republic. She...
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39/150: Lynne Cohen – Behind These Walls
Canadian-American photographer Lynne Cohen (1944-2014) is best known for images of institutional interiors, places generally inaccessible to the general public, such as medical labs, factories,...
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Quick Hits: The Tanenbaum Photos
There’s been a great deal of publicity, and rightly so, for True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection, on exhibit at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. It consists of...
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Giulio Di Sturco: Ganga Ma
A homeless boy fishes for coins using a string and a magnet along the Yamuna river in Delhi, the main tributary of the Ganges. Ganga Ma is the result of a 10-year photographic journey along the Ganges...
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Joseph Hartman: The Artist’s Studio
For photographer Joseph Hartman, the idea of creating artist portraits by capturing the deeply personal spaces of their studios really began in childhood. He has fond memories of being in the studio...
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The Best Drone Photos
Can you tell what this drone image is? It was a winner in the 2018 Sky Pixel Aerial Photo contest. Those are the shadows of workers harvesting salt at Hon Khoi, the largest salt field in Vietnam...
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Quick Hits: Mountains of Kong
Photo artist Jim Naughten’s latest project takes the viewer back in time to a fabled world that existed in the popular consciousness for over a hundred years. The Mountains of Kong could be found on...
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Transplanted Canadian Robert Polidori is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers, for his meticulously detailed, large-format color film photos. This week, he’s on the cover of WSJ magazine...
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Quick Hits: Hand Coloured Flowers
The always interesting Public Domain Review features these stunning floral images by Ogawa Kazumasa, a Japanese photographer, printer, and publisher known for his pioneering work in photomechanical...
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T.M. Glass: The Language of Flowers
T.M. Glass, Alium in an Ancient American Tripod Vessel, from the Museum series, 2017. Vessel photographed with permission at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto. Courtesy of the artist. The Audible Language...
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Quick Hits: Antonio Briceño
Owner of fishes, Wiwa culture, Colombia Antonio Briceño is a Venezuelan photographer and biologist whose work promotes the conservation of nature and indigenous cultures. In a series called “Gods of...
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‘I Have Been There’– Performance Art
I Have Been There Beijing “I have been There” is an on-going performance series that explores relationships between death, belonging and diaspora by Montreal artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong. Every time...
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Quick Hits: ‘Yours to Discover’
In Ontario, Yours to Discover is the slogan on licence plates (although the words are about to change). For Zinnia Naqvi, the phrase triggers memories of immigration to Canada from Pakistan. Her...
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Anthea Baxter-Page: Passages
Temple, Varanasi, 2012. Archival digital print, 30 x 24″ These haunting photographs by Anthea Baxter-Page are from her exhibition Passages, “referring literally to the physical thresholds and pathways...
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Keever: Painting in Water
Bau-Xi Gallery is welcoming internationally acclaimed photographer Kim Keever to its Toronto roster with an exhibition June 1-15. The New York based artist is known for his colourful, large-scale...
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Quick Hits: Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) is an enduring icon of the Great Depression. Taken while Lange was working for the Farm Security Administration documenting the hardships of...
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Shooting with a Five-Gallon Jug
Matthew Brandt pushes boundaries in his “Lakes and Reservoirs” large-scale photo series. The California artist shoots water landscapes across the American West, accompanied by a five gallon jug. Back...
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A Treasury of Caribbean History
Jamaican Women, ca 1900 16.51 cm x 21.59 cm gelatin silver print, unknown photographer The Art Gallery of Ontario has acquired one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of historical...
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Quick Hits: Celebrating Pride
Jason Perreault, Cohen To celebrate Pride Month, artist Jason Perreault’s exhibition Bien dans sa peau [Comfortable in Your Own Skin] highlights gender-queer people and embraces their varied...
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