We’re thrilled to share with you a consolidated version of Capture Photography Festival programming in a single pdf. Download the 2021 Capture Photography Festival Calendar that includes all of the programing including Public Art, Featured & Selected Exhibitions, the Capture Speaker Series and Events. We hope you enjoy this year’s Festival!

Special thanks to the 2021 Capture Selected Exhibitions Jury – Claudia Beck⁣, (Writer, Curator, Collector)⁣ Tarah Hogue⁣, (Curator [Indigenous Art], Remai Modern) ⁣and Ann Thomas, (Senior Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Canada) who alongside Emmy Lee Wall, (Capture’s Executive Director) chose this year’s Selected Exhibitions. January 29 – May 1Whose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes … Continued

Dear Friends, Thank you for your support of Capture Photography Festival. During a year of challenge and change, we are especially aware of photography’s powerful ability to connect and inspire and we are grateful to everyone who collaborated with us to make the 2020 Festival possible.  From all of us here at Capture, very best … Continued

We are thrilled to announce this year’s winner of our public art call in partnership with Booooooom is Hiro Tanaka. Capturing encounters from his daily life, Tanaka’s images including objects, still lives, animals and people, both banal and unusual, combined to surreal effect. Frequently travelling for his work, Tanaka acknowledges the sense of displacement he experiences … Continued

Congratulations to Chun Hua Catherine Dong, winner of the Aberdeen Station public art call. This installation which will be on view as part of Capture’s 2021 Festival in April is presented in collaboration with Richmond Public Art Program, Richmond Art Gallery, and Intransit BC. Shaun Dacey, Director, Richmond Art Gallery states “It is an honour … Continued

November 17, 2020, Vancouver, BC – Capture Photography Festival is pleased to announce Wang Qingsong as the recipient of its inaugural Printing Prize. The Capture Printing Prize is awarded annually to an artist participating in Capture’s Selected Exhibition program, and has a value of $10,000 CAD to be dedicated towards the production of the artist’s … Continued

We are thrilled to be an exhibitor at this year’s Art Toronto! Support Capture’s 2021 programming by purchasing an Artist Edition from our unique selection of seminal Canadian artists such as Nadia Belerique, Dana Claxton, Kapwani Kiwanga, Scott Massey, Alex Morrison, Birthe Piontek, Patryk Stasieczek, Krista Belle Stewart, Stephen Waddell, and Ian Wallace. All funds … Continued

October 5, 2020, Vancouver, BC – Capture Photography Festival is pleased to announce Cheryl Mukherji as the recipient of its inaugural Writing Prize. The Capture Writing Prize is a juried award to support emerging writers and broaden the discourse on lens-based art. Her work will be published in Capture’s annual catalogue which will be released … Continued