At the Capture Photography Festival, a large focus is put on images. Under the larger umbrella of our programming, however, we also support artists, curators, and writers by facilitating meaningful discourse and critical dialogue through textual content in the Capture Magazine. Every year as part of the Festival, we invite a diverse array of contributors to provide essays, interviews, and other writings to deepen conversations about contemporary lens-based practices.
In this blog post, we’ve collected the writings from the 2019 Magazine. Check out the links below for 10 compelling and thought-provoking essays (click through to PDFs):
- Brit Bachmann sits down with artist Hua Jin in “Framing Dundee: An Interview with Hua Jin“
- Insights into David Campany’s internationally touring exhibition a Handful of Dust at The Polygon Gallery
- Roxanne Charles’s compelling observations surrounding her exhibition The Strata of Many Truths at the Museum of Vancouver
- For a discussion on the relationship between the lens and the clinical body, read Sara K. MacLellan’s “Acts of Looking: At the Intersection of Photography and Medicine”
- Elizabeth Milton transports us through the heady experience of embodied performance in “Channeling the Light: Up Close and Personal with VHS”, held at VIVO Media Arts Centre
- Leading us through the research-based practice of Deanna Bowen, Kimberly Phillips, curator at Contemporary Art Gallery, eloquently explores the exhibition, A Harlem Nocturne
- Henri Robideau writes about Kali Spitzer’s powerful exhibition An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance, shown at grunt gallery, in “Nurturing Resilience: The Photography of Kali Spitzer”
- Curator Denise Ryner responds to a photograph from the City of Vancouver Archives in “Far Below and Far Away”
- Jayne Wilkinson explores the work of the three artists in the 2019 Pattison Outdoor Billboards Public Art Project Signals in the Sea and unpacks her curatorial vision
- In “Orthogonal Heart Line: Intersecting the Colonial Grid,” writer and curator Tania Willard explores Krista Belle Stewart’s large-scale installation Earthbound Mnemonic, the 2019 Dal Grauer Public Art Project
Happy reading!
Image: Hua Jin, Dundee, 2017–, inkjet prints, historical archives, found objects
