Launched in 2013, Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival. Annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events as well as an educational partnership with Emily Carr University.
Capture’s vision is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art. The Festival acts as a platform to expand visual literacy through lens-based art; strives to give voice to traditionally underrepresented communities and to present compelling, urgent lens-based art. We aim to connect communities to incite meaningful dialogue between artists, curators, audiences, organizations and institutions. Capture is committed to presenting perspectives from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups.
We acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Stó:lō, and Tsawwassen First Nations on which Capture Photography Festival takes place.
Image: Kapwani Kiwanga’s work in the exhibition “The Blue Hour” at the Contemporary Art Gallery. Photograph by Four Eyes Portraits
Staff
Executive Director
Emmy Lee Wall
Assistant Curator
Chelsea Yuill
TD Assistant Curator of Engagement
Jas Lally
Festival Assistant
Sidney Gordon
Grant Writer
Qian Cheng
Graphic Design
Vicky Lum
Videographer
Sahand Mohajer
Contact
305 Cambie Street
Vancouver BC V6B 2N4
[email protected]
@capturephotofest
Board of Directors
Kim Spencer-Nairn
Founder and Chair
Kate Galicz
Mike Harris
Gosia Kamela
Tanner Kidd
Ian McGuffie
Alison Meredith
Sheenah Rogers-Pfeiffer
Tobi Reyes
Mahdi Shams
Evann Siebens
Adrienne Wood
Advisory Board
Grant Arnold
Claudia Beck
Helga Pakasaar