Capture is thrilled to continue its Audain Curatorial Fellowship, which allows the Festival to invite an equity-seeking Curator to work collaboratively with Capture’s Executive Director and Chief Curator, Emmy Lee Wall, towards the curation of a series of billboards featuring the work of both local and non-local culturally diverse artists. For the 2027 Festival, Capture has invited curator, writer, and educator Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George (he/they), whose practice is rooted in exploring how Blackness is embodied, coded, and represented across visual culture and shared social landscapes.
Emmy Lee Wall states, “For Capture 2027, our Audain Curatorial Fellow, Moroti Soji-George, will program 7 billboards along the Arbutus Greenway, a well-travelled path in central Vancouver. This project provides a highly visible platform for Soji-George to share his vision with a diverse and broad public. We are truly grateful to the Audain Foundation for their support which has allowed us to both support the growth of curators in our community and strengthen the visual literacy of our audiences.”
“I am deeply grateful to the Audain Foundation and Capture Photography Festival for this opportunity. My curatorial practice is deeply invested in the ways images shape how we understand ourselves, one another, and the worlds we inhabit. Working from Blackness as a point of departure, I am particularly interested in how marginalized subjects use image-making to negotiate the conditions through which they are seen, and how images might offer new ways of relating across difference. I am excited for the opportunity to continue developing these questions through photography and public space, and incredibly thankful to Capture and the Audain Foundation for their trust and support.”, comments Moroti Soji-George.
Manon Gauthier, Executive Director, Audain Foundation adds, “We are thrilled to support Capture Photography Festival, an organization that celebrates the rich photographic traditions as well as innovations of this city and beyond. Through the Audain Curatorial Fellowship, we hope to provide an opportunity for an emerging curator to mount a compelling lens-based exhibition in the public sphere for all to enjoy.”
By working with an equity-seeking Curatorial Fellow, this project also provides a platform for the invited curator to learn from and shape Capture’s annual programming – amplifying diverse voices in public spaces for extended periods of time, as well as within Capture’s internal structure and decision-making processes.
About Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George
Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George (he/they) is a curator, writer, and educator based in Vancouver, BC. They are the Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet and co-founded the Black Arts Centre, where they previously served as Co-Director and Curatorial Lead. Their practice centres Blackness as a point of departure for examining the broader structures of marginalization that run through visual culture, politics, and history, with a focus on lens-based work. Soji-George approaches photography and image-making as sites where histories and their contemporary afterlives can be made visible, complicated, or refused. Their research asks what becomes possible when the margins are understood as generative sites of knowledge, relation, and cultural production.
