I Was a Teenage Skateboarder in the '90s, 2018. Photo: Ronan Considine

Media

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2023

01/24/2023, Scout, “New ‘Three-Dimensional Photography’ Exhibition Opens in Abbotsford This Friday”
02/27/2023, Stir, “Black photographers capture and celebrate Black life in As We Rise”
02/28/2023, Canadian Architect, “The West Vancouver Art Museum presents first solo show of photos by Ema Peter”
03/60/2023, Stir, “Spring Arts: 5 gallery shows to blow your mind, pushing beyond traditional content and form”
03/06/2023, The Georgia Straight, “Spring Arts Preview 2023: Visual arts critics’ picks”
03/09/2023, PhMuseum, “The Best Photography Festivals Opening This March”
03/24/2023, Stir, “UN/REAL hits Arbutus Greenway billboards for Capture Photography Festival, to June 11”
03/27/2023, Scout, “Head Downtown for ‘Here and Now’, Opening at Pendulum Gallery Today”
03/28/2023, Stir, “At Capture Photography Festival, Gloria Wong draws on a rich archive of Chinatown and family images”
03/29/2023, Scout, “Scout List, Vol. 600”
03/30/2023, Stir, “Vancouver’s Svava Tergesen turns food photography on its head in Ornamental Cookery”
03/30/2023, Pancouver, “Steven Beckly’s Phantom Eye looms large over Burrard Street as part of Capture Photography Festival”
03/30/2023, Scout, “On the Power of Art and the Urgency to Think Deeply About Representation, with Emmy Lee”
03/31/2023, Scout, “Fruit, Meat, Flowers & Lace: Deconstructing the Still Life with Local Artist, Svava Tergesen”
04/04/2023, Ph Museum, “The Best Photography Festivals Opening This April”
04/04/2023, CBC. CA, “The Capture Photography Festival is in full bloom across the Lower Mainland”
04/12/2023, Pique News Magazine, “Ornamental Cookery exhibit launches as part of Capture Photography Festival”
04/12/2023, Stir, “Architectural photojournalist Ema Peter chases the decisive moment”
04/11/2023, Vancouver Magazine, “Things to Do in Vancouver (April 10-16)”
04/17/2023, Scout, “How to Make the Most of Capture Photography Festival’s Final Weeks, April 17-30”
04/18/2023, The Tyee, “In Architectural Photography, Potential and Limitations”
04/24/2023, Pancouver, “Artist Khim Hipol invokes feelings of resistance and patriotism in Capture Photography Festival exhibition”
04/25/2023, Pancouver, “Vancouver artist Faune Ybarra creates Iceberg Stranded in My Bed to comfort the diaspora”
04/25/2023, New Westminister Record, “Here’s why you see curly tendrils of hair on this New Westminster map”
04/26/2023, Cision News Wire, “Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Announces Full Program and highlights of May 2023 Edition”
04/27/2023, Stir, “Capture Photography Festival 2023 wraps up with a Speaker Series, April 29”
05/16/2023, Galleries West, “Ornamental Cookery: Svava Tergesen bends the tropes of glossy food photography.”
05/16/2023, The Buzzer Blog (by TransLink), “What journey are you on? Find out with Blue Earth Tarot cards”
06/24/2023, Tri-City News, “Blue tarot cards up at this Coquitlam SkyTrain station”

2022

02/10/2022, Tri-City News, “Your Weekend: Spend some time with your Valentine”
02/23/2022, Georgia Straight, “Spring Arts Preview: Shakespeare, Sankofa, and Serrano add sizzle to visual arts”
03/04/2022, Abbotsford News, “Fraser Valley nature photographer to discuss methods in online artist talk”
03/07/2022, Stir, “International Women’s Day 2022: Members of Vancouver’s arts and culture community mark a movement”
03/09/2022, Stir, “Cloud Album captures the beauty and diversity of the skies through photography”
03/14/2022, City of Vancouver, “Seniors’ group develops photo-based public artworks created alongside artists during pandemic”
03/17/2022, The Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival’s featured exhibition zooms in on family histories”
03/17/2022, CBC Vancouver, “Cloud Album at The Polygon Gallery”
03/18/2022, Curiocity, “Capture Photography Festival is taking over Vancouver next month”
03/19/2022, The Globe and Mail, “Paintings of clouds are just what the world needs right now”
03/23/2022, The Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival will present subtly subversive public art by Sara Cwynar”
03/24/2022, Stir, “At Capture Photography Festival, Family Album subverts traditional images of the common social structure”
03/29/2022, Curiocity, “36 of the best things to do in and around Vancouver this April”
03/30/2022, The Globe and Mail, “Vancouver photo festival captures little, huge pieces of life”
03/30/2022, CBC Arts, “Look up! At Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival, images are where you least expect them”
03/31/2022, Curiocity, “13 of the best free and cheap things to do around Vancouver this April”
04/01/2022, Daily Hive, “A look at Vancouver’s most thought-provoking public art (PHOTOS)”
04/03/2022, Vancouver Sun, “Capture Festival lines Metro Vancouver’s public spaces with photography”
04/04/2022, Galleries West, “Cloud Album: Our collective fixation with the sky revealed in historical images.”
04/08/2022, ReIssue Publication, “Ancestors, I Carry You With Me // Inherit at the Art Gallery at Evergreen”
04/12/2022, Scout Magazine, “Five Not-To-Miss Shows at the 9th Annual Capture Photography Festival”
04/14/2022, Scout, “The Scout List, Vol. 587”
04/16/2022, CBC, “Decades later, Fred Herzog’s colourful street photography of Vancouver still resonates”
04/18/2022, Galleries West, “The White Continent: Jeff Topham’s expedition photographs of Antarctica travel a fine line.”
04/18/2022, Talent Vision, “【城市串吧】重溫：2022 Capture 攝影節”
04/21/2022, Scout Magazine, “The Scout List, Vol. 588”
04/21/2022, New West Record, “Public art projects in the plans for New Westminster”
04/22/2022, C Magazine, “Traces, Erasures, Resists” — Laiwan”
05/02/2022, Galleries West, “Douglas Coupland: Provocative photographs inspired by his 1998 novel, Girlfriend in a Coma.”
05/05/2022, PhMueseum, “The Best International Photography Festivals Opening This May 2022”
05/12/2022, Galleries West, “Shahla Bahrami: Trade, teabags and censorship.”
05/14/2022, West Coast Curated, “Capture Photography Festival Replaces Ads with Art”
05/14/2022, Richmond News, “Walking tour connects artists and Richmondites with public art”
05/19/2022, Boooooom, “Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Philotheus Nisch Interview”
10/25/2022, INQUIRER.net, “Filipino student wins prestigious Canadian photography award”

2021

05/14/2021, The Chilliwack Progress, “Vancouver photographer’s billboards taken down after complaints about being ‘disturbing’”
05/13/2021, The Conversation, “Vancouver billboards by artist Steven Shearer evoked intimacy where people least expected it”
05/04/2021, ReIssue, “A Room For The Pain: Jackie Dives at Gallery Gachet”
05/04/2021, Comox Valley Record, “Comox Valley students’ photos part of prestigious exhibition”
04/23/2021, The Globe and Mail, “By covering up the photographs of Steven Shearer, Vancouver succumbed to censorship”
04/20/2021, Canadian Art, “Capture Photography Festival Presents Jordan Bennett”
04/20/2021, Scout Magazine, “Get Outside and Explore the Capture Photography Festival’s Many Public Art Projects”
04/18/2021, Daily Hive, “15 things to do in Vancouver this week: April 19 to 25”
04/14/2021, Richmond News, “Richmond Art Gallery hosts online artist talk about issues of gender and culture”
04/13/2021, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, “ECU Partners with Capture Photo Fest for Two Feature Artist Talks at 2021 Festival”
04/11/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival curator makes room for Indigenous voices with Jordan Bennett’s al’taqiaq: it spirals”
04/10/2021, Burnaby Now, “8 things to do in Vancouver this weekend”
04/08/2021, Stir Magazine, “Trio of Edward Burtynsky films streams at VIFF as part of Capture Photography Festival, April 9 to May 6”
04/08/2021, The Globe and Mail, “Photograph installed on Vancouver power substation returns Mi’kmaq artwork to its home”
04/07/2021, Daily Hive, “Capture Photography Festival billboards covered up after intense public complaints”
04/06/2021, ReIssue, “Shearer’s Spectral Sleepers”
04/04/2021, Vancouver is Awesome, “Here’s how to check out Capture Photography Festival, taking place in Vancouver all month long”
04/02/2021, CBC News, “Photography festival billboards taken down after complaints about ‘horrible’ pictures”
04/02/2021, Stir Magazine, “While they were sleeping: here are some of the billboard images that the Capture Photography Festival had to cover up”
04/02/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Vancouver artist Steven Shearer’s images removed from Arbutus Greenway after public complaints”
04/02/2021, Artnet, “Canadians Found Steven Shearer’s Billboards of People Sleeping So Creepy That a Vancouver Photo Festival Had to Cover Them Up”
04/01/2021, The Globe and Mail, “Feast for the Eyes exhibition at B.C.’s Polygon Gallery examines nuances of food photography”
04/01/2021, The Art Newspaper, They see “dead people”: billboard works removed from Vancouver photography festival after locals complain
04/01/2021, The Globe and Mail, Vancouver billboards with images by renowned artist covered up after complaints
04/01/2021, The Photographic Museum of Humanity, “The Best Photography Festivals Open this April”
04/01/2021, Stir Magazine, “Vivek Shraya’s Trauma Clown photo series probes the commodification of personal pain”
04/01/2021, The Georgia Straight Talks, “Capture Photography Festival”
04/1/2021, E-flux, “Capture Photography Festival / Vancouver Art Gallery”
03/31/2021, Stir Magazine, “Stir Q&A: Artist Anique Jordan explores skin tone and the Black woman’s body at Capture Photography Festival”
03/31/2021, ECU News, “ECU Student Exhibition, Artist Talk Presented as Part of 2021 Capture Photo Fest”
03/31/2021, The Georgia Straight, “10 Capture Photography Festival exhibitions to view in person at Metro Vancouver galleries”
03/31/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Hair and Identity: Artist Émilie Régnier reveals two universes that exist within her body”
03/31/2021, Stir Magazine, “Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 Facts about Mi’kmaq artist Jordan Bennett’s al’taqiaq: it spirals”
03/30/2021, The Buzzer Blog, “Capture Photography Festival: 9 Public Art Installations To Check Out At SkyTrain Stations”
03/30/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Artist and author Vivek Shraya to talk with Jonny Appleseed author and launch solo art show in Vancouver”
03/30/2021, Canadian Art Magazine, “Five Projects to See at Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival”
03/29/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Vancouver film festivals and series to watch in April”
03/29/2021, The Georgia Straight, “33 Vancouver arts events happening online in April”
03/28/2021, North Shore News, “Time Traveller: Take a page from this 100-year-old mountaineering photography album”
03/25/2021, Stir, “Pictures and Promises exhibit takes a timely look at the lure of advertising”
03/24/2021, The Georgia Straight, “Lens-based artistry and consumer culture collide in Pictures and Promises”
03/22/2021, Booooooom, “Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Hiro Tanaka Interview”
03/22/2021, Canadian Art, “Capture Photography Festival Opens On April 2”
03/15/2021, Daily Hive, “18 things to do in Vancouver during spring break: March 15 to 22”
02/23/2021, Art Daily, “Exhibition features a broad selection of lens-based works by local and international artists”
02/19/2021, Daily Hive, “New Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit explores consumerism through camera lens”

2020

08/19/2020, Quill&Quire, “Massy Books Launches A Community Focused Arts Society”
04/30/2020, CBC Radio On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko, “Capture Photography Festival”
04/22/2020, Vancouver Sun, “Five reasons to check out the Capture Photography Festival”
04/15/2020, PhotoLife, “Online exhibition with Capture Photography Festival”
04/14/2020, The Georgia Straight, “Vancouver art projects capture COVID-19 social distancing through photos and video”
04/13/2020, Inside Vancouver, “#VirtuallyVancouver – Travel-Worthy Experiences from Our City to Wherever You May Be”
04/01/2020, The Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival brings connection through art”
03/31/2020, Vancouver Sun, “Adad Hannah’s Social Distancing Portraits capture the uncertainty of our time”
02/27/2020, The Georgia Straight, “Spring Arts Preview 2020 visual arts critics picks: Drink in the diversity”
0214/2020, PhotoLife, “NPAC’s 2019 National Picture of the Year Finalists”
02/13/2020, Booooooom, “Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Public Art Artist Chosen”

2019

01/10/2019, Canadian Art, “Photos of Young Indigenous Athletes Become Public Art”
01/29/2019, Abbotsford News, “Four new exhibitions at The Reach focus on the human body”
01/30/2019, Georgia Straight, “Desirée Patterson wins Canada Line Competition“
03/19/2019, La Source, “Un hommage artistique à son père”
04/01/2019, Scout, “On Growing Up Skateboarding and Taking Badass Portraits With Alana Paterson“
04/03/2019, Georgia Straight, “Artist Deanna Bowen resurrects Vancouver’s historic black community with A Harlem Nocturne”
04/03/2019, Booooooom, “Skwxwú7mesh Nation Basketball: Photographs by Alana Paterson”
04/03/2019, Georgia Straight, “Kali Spitzer and Alana Paterson reveal portraits of Indigenous resilience at the Capture Photography Festival“
04/04/2019, The Tyee, “There Is Truth There: The Power of Art from Residential Schools on Display“
04/08/2019, Georgia Straight, “Photo artists Lynne Cohen and Jim Breukelman excel at eerily detailed, human-less settings”
04/08/2019, The Globe & Mail, “The Museum of Vancouver shows a different, darker way into Canada’s residential schools with exhibition There Is Truth Here”
04/12/2019, North Shore News,“Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nation portraits of empowerment on view at The Polygon”
04/12/2019, Bowen Island Undercurrent, “Milky Way stars in Terminal Creek Contemporary’s new show”
05/05/2019, Comox Valley Record, “Comox Valley students showcase artwork at Vancouver exhibit”

2018

04/27/2018, Georgia Straight, “After a fast day of shooting, Roll Call opens exhibit tonight as part of Capture Photography Festival”
04/14/2018, New Westminster Record, “Experience the magic of Capture in New Westminster”
04/12/2018, CBC, “Public art important part of Capture Photography Festival”
04/11/2018, Georgia Straight, “Time travels in Contemporary Art Gallery’s Blue Hour”
04/11/2018, The Star Vancouver, “Vancouver artists use vans to exhibit their photos because they can’t find affordable gallery space”
04/06/2018, Beatroute, “‘The Blue Hour,’ Feature Exhibition at Capture Photography Festival, Considers the Concept of Time”
04/05/2018, Vancouver Sun, “Artists create mobile art galleries in response to sky-high real-estate prices”
04/04/2018, National Observer, “‘GroundTruth—Anatomy of a Pipeline’ exhibit examines bigger picture of resource economy”
04/04/2018, Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival offers portraits of Vancouver’s sea change”
04/04/2018, Artslandia, “Transit just got a whole lot more visual: Capture Photography Festival takes over the Canada Line”
03/29/2018, Peace Arch News, “Photographer captures climate change in new series”
03/28/2018, CBC, “‘It has so much baggage’: Hijab scrutinized in art installation at SkyTrain station”
03/21/2017, Scout, “How to Properly (and Deliciously) Navigate the Capture Photography Festival”

2017

05/06/2017, Vancouver Sun, “ART SEEN: Beginning and Ending in conversation about photography at Capture Festival”
04/20/2017, Like Vancouver, “Capture Photography Festival”
04/16/2017, CBC Radio, “‘You need to be fearless’: Why photographing architecture is harder than it looks”
04/14/2017, Booooooom, “Vancouver Photo Book Fair 2017”
04/07/2017, Booooooom, “Photographer Spotlight: Marten Elder”
04/05/2017, Hayo Magazine, “Vancouver Photo Book Fair Launches for Capture Festival”
04/04/2017, CBC Arts, “Grand Theft Terra Firma turns Canada’s brutal history into a video game”
04/04/2017, Montecristo, “Elizabeth Zvonar: Alternatives.”
04/01/2017, Beatroute, “Capture Photography Festival”
03/31/2017, Scout, “A Filling Guide To Consuming The ‘Capture Photography Festival’”
03/30/2017, 24 Hrs Vancouver, “Capture Photography Festival celebrates the still image”
03/29/2017, Georgia Straight, “Seeking new perspectives: Women break ground at the 2017 Capture Photography Festival”
03/29/2017, Georgia Straight, “Local artists retell history in immersive exhibits at Capture Photography Festival”
03/26/2017, Galleries West, “Photo Festival Captures Vancouver”
02/17/2017, Vancouver Sun, “ART SEEN: Capture Photography Festival expands to include emerging artists and amateurs”

2016

04/25/2016, SAD Mag, “Review: Ballet BC 30th Anniversary Photo Exhibition at Capture Fest”
04/18/2016, BuzzFeed, “This Artist Beautifully Captured the ‘Disneyfication’ of Canada’s Wilderness”
04/14/2016, Vancouver Magazine, “The Ticket: Capture Photography Festival”
04/14/2016, Canadian Art, “Must-Sees This Week: April 14 to 20, 2016”
04/13/2016, ShawTV, “Fiona on the Scene: Capture Photography Festival on ShawTV”
04/04/2016, La Source, “Le conte de deux cités… en photos”
04/01/2016, Savoteur, “Art Imitates Life —Or Is It the Other Way Around?”
03/30,2016, Globe and Mail, “Hot Ticket: Capture Photography Festival”
03/30/2016, Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival turns a lens on public art”
03/30/2016, Vancouver Sun, “Get the picture? Capture Photography Festival a perfect fit for Vancouver”
03/24/2016, Scout, “Capture Photography Festival Set for April 1-28 with 50 Participating Galleries”
03/21/2016, Photolife, “Third Annual Capture Photography Festival”
03/02/2016, Vancouver Observer, “Capture Photography Fest builds on Vancouver history with Hot Properties and more”
02/22/2016, Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival returns with public art installations that will make you think about image-making”
02/17/2016, Vancouver Sun, “Hot, Hotter, Hottest: Capture Photography Festival billboards to focus on unique Vancouver houses”

2015

04/22/2015, Burnaby Now, “Burnaby Art Gallery celebrates captured moments”
04/21/2015, Huffington Post, “New Show Gives Us a Glamorous Portrait of 1950s Vancouver”
04/15/2015, Montecristo, “Capture Photography Festival Presents Jessica Eaton”
04/14/2015, Westender, “Capture Fest reveals the world in pictures”
04/09/2015, Momus, “Interview: Curator Christopher Eamon Troubles the Shifting Form (and Relevance) of Photography”
04/08/2015, Montecristo, “Step into the Frame: ‘Images That Speak’ at Capture Photography Festival”
04/02/2015, Globe and Mail, “In photos: Images from the Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver”
04/02/2015, Metro, “Vancouver photojournalist captures lives of people living ‘off the grid'”
04/02/2015, 01 Magazine, “Capture Photography Festival”
04/01/2015, Georgia Straight, “Vancouver’s Capture festival features the new faces of photography”
04/01/2015, Georgia Straight, “Capture festival’s Jessica Eaton gives Dal Grauer Substation abstract pop”
03/31/2015, Beatroute, “A snapshot of what to expect this year at the Capture Photography Festival”
03/15/2015, Vancouver Is Awesome, “Capture Photography Festival – 2015”
03/07/2015, Vancouver Sun, “Event brings lens-based art into focus” (print only)
02/06/2015, Vancouver Observer, “Capture Festival takes Vancouver photography to the next level”

2013

10/05/2013, Monocle, “Weekend Agenda 05/06 October”
10/03/2013, Globe and Mail, “Hot Ticket: Capture Photography Festival”
10/02/2013, Ion, “Capture 1.0”
10/02/2013, Georgia Straight, “Capture Photography Festival fetes all photo forms”
10/02/2013, Georgia Straight, “Edward Burtynsky turns his lens to water at the Capture Photography Festival”
09/30/2013, Photolife, “Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver”
09/25/2013, Montecristo, “Capture Photography Festival: Capturing Vancouver”
09/12/2013, Georgia Straight, “A fall feast for the eyes”
04/15/2013, Canadian Art, “New Vancouver Photo Fest Slated”
03/29/2013, Vancouver Sun, “Capture Festival puts focus on Vancouver photography scene”

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