The artist editions can be purchased online. All proceeds from edition sales support the Capture Photography Festival.

Steven Beckly
Phantom Eye, 2023
archival pigment print
22.86 x 31.46 cm (image size); 25.4 x 34 cm (paper size)
Courtesy of the Artist and Daniel Faria Gallery
Unframed
$300 CAD

Capture’s 2023 Artist Edition by Steven Beckly is based on his commission for the 2023 BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project.

Steven Beckly is a Chinese Canadian photographic artist residing in Tkaronto/Toronto. Cultivating a visual language of light and colour, he explores the continuum of intimacy by creating multidimensional images, objects, and environments. Playful, touching, and evocative, Beckly’s photographic artworks encompass bodily abstraction, material manipulation, and site-responsive installations. Considering the social dynamics between the individual and the collective, Beckly’s practice questions the potential of art to inspire intimacy between ourselves and others, with the natural world and beyond.

Sara Cwynar
Umi, 2022
Canson Platine Fiber rag 310 paper, edition of 50, 3 APs
13.85 x 18.7 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto
Unframed
$150 CAD

Capture’s 2022 Artist Edition by Sara Cwynar is based on her commission for the 2022 BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project.

Sara Cwynar (Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1985) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work in photography, video and installation involves a constant archiving and re-presentation of collected visual materials. She explores the way that images morph, accumulate, endure and change in meaning and value over time, and the effect this has on a collective worldview. Cwynar has exhibited her work at MoMA PS1 in New York, Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and Fondazione Prada in Milan, Italy and her works are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. She most recently finished a commissioned performance for the 2021 Performa Biennial in New York City. She is represented by Foxy Production, New York, Cooper Cole, Toronto, and the Approach, London.

Jordan Bennett
al’taqiaq: it spirals, 2020
digital photograph printed on lustre paper, Edition of 30, 2 APs
50.8 cm x 40.64 cm
Unframed
$300 CAD

The 2021 Capture Artist Edition is a reproduction of the commission for the 2021 BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project, which is a digital photograph.

Jordan Bennett is a Mi’kmaq visual artist from Stephenville Crossing, Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland). He lives and works on his ancestral territory of Mi’kma’ki in Terence Bay, Nova Scotia with his partner in life and art Amy Malbeuf. Bennett’s practice utilizes painting, sculpture, textiles, video, installation, public art and sound to explore land, language, the act of visiting, familial histories and challenging colonial perceptions of Indigenous histories and presence with a focus on exploring Mi’kmaq and Beothuk visual culture of Ktaqamkuk. In the past 10 years Bennett has participated in over 90 group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally such as the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019); The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2018); Smithsonian-National Museum of the American Indian, NYC (2017); The Winnipeg Art Gallery (2017); MAC-VAL, Paris (2017); Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2015); Project Space Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne (2014); Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe (2013); The Power Plant, Toronto (2013); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2013); The Museum of Art and Design, New York (2012); and was one of two artists to represent Newfoundland and Labrador in the 2015 Venice Biennial at Galleria Ca’Rezzonico as part of the official Collateral Events.

He has been the recipient of several awards and honours most notably the co-winner of the 2020 Sobey Art Award, a Hnatyshyn Foundation REVEAL award (2017) and presented with the 2014 Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Councils Artist of the Year.

Kapwani Kiwanga
Counter-Illumination (detail), 2020
20.32 × 25.4 cm
Digital Photograph
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 30 + 2 APs
$400

The 2020 Capture Artist Edition is a detail chosen by the artist from her commission for the 2020 BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project, and is a digital photograph.

Printed by Tricera Print. With each purchase of a 2020 Capture Artist Edition, Tricera is offering a 15% framing discount. Contact Tricera at [email protected] for framing.

Kapwani Kiwanga studied anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University, Montreal and art at l’école des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Kiwanga’s work has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada, the Esker Foundation, Calgary; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Glasgow Center of Contemporary Art; Museum of Modern in Dublin; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Salt Beyoglu, Istanbul; South London Gallery; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Albertinum, Dresden. She was the commissioned artist of the Armory Show (2016), where a special focus was devoted to her work. In 2018 she was named the inaugural winner of the New York Frieze Artist Award; that same year she was the recipient of the Sobey Art Award. She is currently short-listed for the 2020 Marcel Duchamp Prize. Kiwanga lives and works in Paris.

Download Dean Daderko’s essay “Through Windows As Through History” (PDF) on Kiwanga’s 2020 Capture public art installation.

Krista Belle Stewart
Earthbound Mnemonic (detail), 2019
53.34 × 35.56 cm
Screenprint of a digitally manipulated photograph
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 24 + 2 APs
$100

The 2019 Capture Artist Edition is a detail chosen by the artist from her commission for the 2019 Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project, which is a digitally manipulated photograph. This edition is a cropped version of the work and is reproduced as a screenprint.

Nadia Belerique
In the Belly of a Cat (detail), 2018
27.94 x 22.86 cm, archival pigment print
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 30
$300

The 2018 Capture Artist Edition is a detail chosen by the artist from her photo-based work for the 2018 Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project. Drawing from Nadia Belerique’s sculptural works, such as those found in her 2016 exhibition Bed Island, the site-specific image In the Belly of a Cat (2018) plays with the poetics of perception and questions how images perform in contemporary culture.

The In the Belly of a Cat edition crops the portion of the work that includes the artist’s hand—the first time the human form has appeared in Belerique’s practice. This artistic presence, a long-standing art historical tradition, marks the distance between the artist and viewer.

Download Sky Goodden’s essay “Between the Artist, the Subject, and Their Sky” on Belerique’s 2018 Capture public art installation.

Alex Morrison
Brand New Era Social Club (detail), 2017
27.94 x 22.86 cm, pigment print on bamboo paper
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 40
$350

The 2017 Capture Artist Edition is a detail chosen by the artist from her photo-based work for the 2017 Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project.
Reflecting thematically upon the fragmented nature of Vancouver’s story as a city, Alex Morrison’s Brand New Era Social Club, comments on both digital and analogue forms of representation and their importance in the construction of past narratives and contemporary reality. The room that appears in the image is a three-dimensional rendering that combines photo-collage with Morrison’s amateur digital drawing skills, which has been framed and cropped to the artist’s liking.

This act of selecting a frame from a larger reality (or virtual reality, in this case) mimics that of making a photograph, but speaks directly to the constructed nature of many of the images circulating today, especially those emerging from the real estate or industrial design worlds. Though outside of the traditional definition of photography (whereby photo = light and graphia = writing or inscription), Morrison’s work suggests that this definition no longer reflects the medium’s current conditions.

Stephen Waddell
The Collector and Showroom, 2016
43.18 x 55.88 cm, pigment print on fibre paper
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 50
$350

The 2016 Capture Artist Edition from the 2016 Dal Grauer Substation Public Art Project.

Neither a so-called street photographer nor interested in the rhetoric of staged photography, Stephen Waddell creates photographs that deliberately exist in a place of ambiguity. In his work, Waddell intertwines the realist history of early modern painting with that of early street photography to create considered studies of anonymous figures working, relaxing, and moving through the urban environment.

This artwork was originally a public art commission for the Capture Photography Festival in partnership with Burrard Arts Foundation. Placed on the facade of the Dal Grauer Substation, the work finds links to mid-century modernism, with its renewed optimism for the possibilities of art, architecture, and technology and their ability to enhance the public realm.

Dana Claxton
WHY, 2014
10.16 x 15.24 cm, gelatine print on archival fibre
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 30
$300

This image was taking during a trip to Paris, when Dana Claxton roamed the streets with her old Canon AE1, looking for the American Indian in the Paris cityscape. The more she roamed, the larger her focus became, growing to encompass the wider sociopolitical and spiritual environments of the City of Paris—the grand dame of political thinking, culture, and pleasure.

During a stroll down one of many cobbled streets, Claxton saw in big letters on a storefront window the word “WHY,” leading her to think of how this simple three-letter word drives so much research, critical thinking, spiritual inquiry, and human behaviour and histories. The photograph captures a multitude of reflections that are as layered as the word itself, WHY.

Patryk Stasieczek
Tactile Compositional Iteration, 2016
20.32 x 25.4 cm, photogram on matte chromogenic paper
Courtesy of the Artist
Varied artist edition of 30
$123

By the nature of the photogram process—which involves using light-sensitive photographic paper but no camera to create an image—each number of Patryk Stasieczek’s Tactile Compositional Iteration will be a variance on the image pictured here, which is the first edition. Each subsequent edition will be a variance of a calculated attempt at generating a similar composition. Matters of chance and movement during the exposure and placement of materials onto the photographic paper will render a slightly different image each time, making each photogram a unique edition from a larger series.

Patryk Stasieczek is an LGBTQ visual artist living between Montréal, Quèbec, and Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. He was the director and co-curator of Gallery 295 in Vancouver, BC, an exhibition space that focused on emerging photographic practices and discourses. He is part-time faculty at Concordia University and previously held a sessional faculty position at Emily Carr University of Art Design. His practice frames the photographic as an iterative and transdisciplinary subject oriented through the embodied arms of curation, installation, documentation, and education.

Ian Wallace
Clayoquot Protest (August 9, 1993), 1993/2015
27.94 x 21.59 cm, inkjet print
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 50
$400

This work is an inkjet edition version of a detail from the first large panel of Ian Wallace’s nine-panel canvas work Clayoquot Protest (August 9,1993), which is in the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery. This detail selects a specific moment in the drama of the protest.

What attracted Wallace to this detail from the original panoramic photograph of this gathering of several hundred people is the pensive woman in the foreground, who provides a pedestal for a constellation of portraits of individuals engaged in a demonstration of resistance to authority in the name of a politics of ecological responsibility. There is a rich diversity of expression in these portraits: from anxiety to felicity, from serious purpose to wonder and doubt. Wallace hopes this image will provide an emblem for a contemplation of the complexity of this struggle between human ideals and the exploitation of nature.

Scott Massey
Spectrum Study 4 (infrared), 2014
29.21 x 31.75 cm, archival pigment print
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 50
$100

Scott Massey’s Spectrum Studies series explores the spectrum of visible and invisible light waves that illuminate our world, with each study capturing a “durational landscape” in a single print. His contribution to the Capture Mini Editions series, Spectrum Study 4 (infrared), was shot on rare infrared film, resulting in a rich and lush colour palette that belies the landscape’s harsh topography and history. The work depicts the Hope Slide, Canada’s largest ever landslide, to which Massey is returning for his next photography series, presented at Burnaby Art Gallery during Capture 2015.

Scott Massey obtained his BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2003 and has since appeared in group and solo shows across the country, including at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Dazibao Gallery, Montreal; the C. H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver; the Surrey Art Gallery; and Luminato Festival, Toronto. Massey most often works with the medium of light, manifesting as photography but also as installation, sculpture, and video. He currently lives and works in Vancouver.

Birthe Piontek
Trouts, 2013
20.32 x 25.40 cm, archival pigment print
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 50
$100

Birthe Piontek’s edition, Trouts, is selected from her Lying Still series, which began as a visual diary of the artist’s journey through a sickness but transformed to take on larger themes of change, aging, and individuation. Comprised of self-portraits and still lifes, Lying Still explores conscious and unconscious aspects of the human condition, from sexuality and desire to mortality and fear, and our responses to the inescapable force of change.

Birthe Piontek is a German-born, Vancouver-based artist, whose photographic practice focuses on portraiture while also incorporating elements of installation and sculpture. Her work is held in private and public collections around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the Museum of Applied Arts, Gera, Germany, and has been published in Le Monde, Wired, and the New Yorker, among others. Her most recent series, The Idea of the North (2008–10), won the Critical Mass Book Award. Birthe Piontek is represented by Charles Guice Contemporary, New York, and Kominek Gallery, Berlin.

Danny Singer
Trossachs, 2005/2014
15.875 x 58.42 cm, archival pigment print
Courtesy of the Artist and Gallery Jones
Edition of 100
$200

Composed of dozens of photographs digitally layered together into a single image, Danny Singer’s Trossachs depicts the southern Saskatchewan hamlet of Trossachs, population 42. Singer creates his works by moving his camera slowly down the main streets of prairie towns, taking photographs every few feet to develop a final, flat depiction of the entire street in extreme detail. His images are normally presented at a massive scale of six to nine feet wide, but for the Capture Mini Editions series, Trossachs has been shrunk to just under two feet.

Edmonton-born, Vancouver-based photographer Danny Singer has been capturing the main streets of small prairie towns in panoramic photographs since 1999. His photographic career began in film, as a cameraman and director for the CBC, moving into still photography when he relocated to Montreal in 1970. Singer’s work is held in public collections across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Danny Singer is represented by Gallery Jones, Vancouver.

Jessica Eaton
DG Weave, 2015
9.8″ x 14″, archival pigment print
Courtesy of the Artist
Edition of 50
SOLD OUT

Jessica Eaton’s Capture Mini Edition is a scaled-down version of her public art installation at the BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation, which draws inspiration from the building’s midcentury architecture and minimalist artists like Sol LeWitt. This brand-new work employs Eaton’s trademark photographic process, by which she creates intensely coloured photographs using black-and-white film. She accomplishes this by “mixing” light within an analogue camera directly onto the film, using photo filters and multiple exposures to manipulate the photographic process.

Regina-born artist Jessica Eaton is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is currently based in Montreal. Her practice revolves around the chemical and material aspects of photography, using analogue techniques to create images that look more like paintings than photographs. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions and was recently called “the hottest photographic artist to come out of Canada since Jeff Wall” by the Guardian. Eaton will launch Wild Permutations, her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, in February 2015. Jessica Eaton is represented by Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto; Higher Pictures, New York; and M+B, Los Angeles.