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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and Aeroplan haved announced the four finalists for The Grange Prize 2012, the only major Canadian art prize whose winner is chosen by public vote. Two artists from Canada and two from the United Kingdom have been shortlisted to compete for the $50,000 prize. Online voting begins today at… [full story]
Anthony Redpath’s exhibition at Vancouver’s Bau Xi Gallery focuses on the transformation of coastal communities and the irony of contemporary life along the Pacific North West Coast . [full story]
Daphne Chan is a Vancouver photographer whose current fine art photography project examines the conceptual conflation between women’s bodies and domestic interiors. This post contains tasteful nude photography and a video interview where Daphne discusses her process for photographing the female nude. [full story]
Bret Culp is a Toronto photographer, director and award-winning visual effects supervisor who seeks out scenes that represent the ephemeral nature of the world. Through his iconic black and white photographs Culp conveys the beauty that exists in the impermanent. [full story]
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]
The Tattoo Project is a new book featuring images of 12 Vancouver photographers produced during a marathon 3-day photo shoot. [full story]
Some of Canada’s leading commercial, fashion and fine art photographers — including Chris Nicholls, Genevieve Caron, Geoff Barrenger and Colin Faulkner, to name just a few — have rallied together with Toronto’s Silverline Studios to help raise funds for 29-year-old photographer Gian Carlo Drueco who is battling cancer. The photographers have all donated prints or… [full story]
In recognition of World MS Day on May 30th, renowned Canadian photographer Caitlin Cronenberg has created a first-of-its-kind photo exhibit to showcase the journey young women face when diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). With many women diagnosed in the prime of their lives, three vivacious women from across the Canada participated in the project and… [full story]
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is donating 40 hand-made prints, valued at more than $617,000, to the collection of his hometown’s Rodman Hall Art Centre, which is part of Brock University’s Faculty of Humanities. Burtynsky, a Niagara native and officer of the Order of Canada, has achieved international fame for his striking images from industrial and… [full story]
Toronto artist Arnaud Maggs received the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA) at a ceremony held Wednesday evening at Toronto’s Design Exchange. Celebrating excellence in contemporary photography, the $50,000 award, a solo Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival exhibition in 2013, and a book deal with international art photography publisher Steidl, is Canada’s largest prize for an… [full story]
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