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For Leigh Righton‘s latest body of work the Vancouver photographer focused her camera on the parts of people’s bodies that they are most uncomfortable with. The project is called EMBODIED and was conceptualized with the purpose of celebrating the human body and exploring our relationship with it. Righton photographed more than thirty people who bravely… [full story]
Documentary photographer Ian Willms was among the finalists in the Magnum 2012 Emerging Photographer Fund. Willms is from Kitchener, Ontario and is a member of the Boreal Collective. He was nominated for his ongoing project to document the First Nations community of Fort Chipewyan in Northern Alberta, which is situated just north of the Canadian… [full story]
The winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards were announced Thursday night, and congratulations are in order to all the fine Canadian photographers who won awards. The gala was held at The Carlu in Toronto and more than 650 members of the Canadian magazine industry were in attendance as the National Magazine Awards Foundation presented… [full story]
Brett Gundlock didn’t know anything about immigration. He had not lived the immigrant experience himself and he didn’t know anyone who had. His limited views on the subject came from what he had heard during his occasional chats with cab drivers and by listening to their stories. But after working on a photo series about… [full story]
Canadian photographer Donald Weber was announced as a winner of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards on April 26th in London, England. Weber won the Current Affairs Photographer of the Year for his series Life in the Exclusion Zone. Donald Weber’s series was taken in Odaka, which lies on the northeastern coast of Japan. It… [full story]
A photo of a Muslim woman wearing full Islamic dress and holding up a bra is creating controversy in Kamloops, B.C., and the Saudi Arabian Embassy is now involved. The photo was taken by Sooraya Graham, a Thompson Rivers University fine arts student who wears a Muslim headdress herself, and features one of Graham’s friends… [full story]
Jeff Topham is a freelance photographer, filmmaker, and writer from Vancouver who spent three years of his childhood in the West African country of Liberia. Recently, he and his brother, Andrew, returned to Liberia to make a documentary retracing their life there. While filming, they learned that 14 years of civil war had destroyed the… [full story]
In this video, Canadian photographer and World Press Photo award winner Donald Weber discusses his photographic practice with VICE. Weber talks about his ongoing documentation of life in Chernobyl, his work inside the buffer zone at Fukushima following the nuclear crisis, as well as his interest in power and it’s abuses in Russia.
Award-winning photographers Brett Gundlock and Johan Hallberg-Campbell are offering an intensive four-week workshop for documentary photographers in Toronto this May. During the Next Level Documentary Photography Workshop Johan and Brett will work with students from initial visualization of a documentary project to the final editing of the completed work. Based on the practical experience of… [full story]
The Canadian photography collective PhotoSensitive mounts an exhibition each year to raise awareness about a worthy social issue. This year’s show will contain photos by 13 photographers and 12 videographers who shot at 12 Easter Seals camps across Canada over the summer of 2011. PhotoSensitive’s “Kids Who Can” exhibition, produced in partnership with Easter Seals… [full story]
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