We are all tourists
Pedestrians pour over the perfectly manicured grass and onto the street, obstructing the cars attempting to drive by. Everyone seems to move at a glacial…
photography
When I told you to shoot the sky, I had something else in mind…
It’s no simple feat to take something like the mountainous horizons of Banff and make them seem untouched – yet curator Natasha Peterson has managed…
Winnipeg’s flashy new photographic festival
Winnipeg has established itself as a cultural super-centre for festivals. From the Winnipeg Folk Festival to Folklorama to Culture Days, our city thrives on the…
Photrocity
The University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery is now displaying Photrocity: Mass Violence and Its Aftermaths in the Sovfoto Archive, an exhibit that uses…
Rare Louis Riel photographs recovered
The University of Manitoba received a new set of rare 140–year–old photographs of Louis Riel and Manitoba from a civil war memorabilia auction in Australia….
Smile for the camera
Does anyone else feel like the world today is over saturated with digital photos? These days it seems everyone puts way too much value into…
The end of film
One of the most dynamic and evolving mediums today is photography. What was once a scientific tool developed by chemists and the privileged rich is…
Expressing Suppression
Having been born and bred on the prairies I suppose I should be used to the glaring futility of shoveling snow. I’m sure we’ve all…
Awkward Overtures
With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…
So Bad it’s Good
In both fetish and fantasy, the “bad girl” is deviant, overtly sexual and dangerous. She is the one of temptresses of the Bible (Salome and…