It’s no longer breaking news that South Granville’s galleries have experiences a massive turnover in the last couple years. Fortunately, this shift has given a chance for remaining established galleries to get some well deserved attention, and brought forth a new guard of ambitious gallerists showing work by exciting emerging artists–among them an excellent crop of … Continued

Vancouver’s Chinatown was art-party central on Friday October 11th! We had a blast checking out David Semeniuk’s Perimeter at The Gam Gallery, ducking into Positive Negative Gallery for Tristan Casey’s Asleep in Your Branches, and even stopping by The Shop for a change of pace… Photos by Jean Cueta.

We reached out to a handful of talented photographers, some of whom are exhibiting with the festival and others who submitted to our Capture in Transit Competition, and asked to use their images in our Lamar Transit Advertising Bus, Skytrain and Canada Line ads. Luckily, many of them obliged and we wound up with some … Continued

We’re flattered to be getting some international attention, the venerable London-based Monocle Magazine mentioned Capture in their Weekend Agenda with a special note about one of our most anticipated exhibitions; the new AHVA Gallery’s The Photo Show: 1969/2013 – Exploring the Photo Conceptual Archive.  Read the post here!

The Globe and Mail‘s Jennifer Van Evra interviews our Director Julie Lee about Capture’s inaugural year. “The six-week fest features works by some of Vancouver’s best-known photo-based artists, including legendary street photographer Fred Herzog, the Vancouver School’s Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham, documentarian Edward Burtynsky, London-based Canadian artist Mark Lewis and local luminaries Karin Bubaš … Continued

Ed Burtynsky chats with the Georgia Straight’s Charles Campbell about the Capture and Pattison Billboard installations from his newest series Water.  The article touches on “beauty, humanity, and ambiguity” in his work, proving that Burtynsky is not afraid to address critics’ concerns or praise of his work. Read it here!

Have you checked out An Evolutionary Look into Vancouver Street Photography: Foncie Pulice to the 21st Century yet? ION agrees that it’s worth a trip to the Museum of Vancouver–the show runs until January 31st, 2014. Read article here!  

On October 1st, 2013, Capture 1.0 launched with the opening of An Evolutionary look into Vancouver Street Photography: Foncie Pulice into the 21st Century at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV). The evening was a complete success, with performances by the Max Zipursky Band and wines by Lamarca Prosecco. The MOV kept the Foncie’s Fotos exhibition open … Continued