Event Dates
Time
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Left to Right: Stephen Shore. Courtesy of Richard Renaldi; Kristen Gaylord. Courtesy of Ciara Elle Bryant.
Left to Right: Stephen Shore. Courtesy of Richard Renaldi; Kristen Gaylord. Courtesy of Ciara Elle Bryant.
Speaker Series
2026 Festival Launch & Speaker Series 1: Stephen Shore in Conversation with Kristen Gaylord
ADMISSION
Free
In person at the Vancouver Art Gallery and online streaming options available (please note the event is in Pacific Standard Time)
Registration required.
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*Please note: The in-person portion of this event is currently at capacity. Please use the link above to register for the online stream or email [email protected] to be added to the waitlist.
Registration closes Monday, March 29, 2026, 5:00 PM PST
Join us for a conversation with Stephen Shore, the pioneering American photographer behind Uncommon Places, in dialogue with Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Shore will join us online, and Gaylord will be attending in person.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places, this discussion explores Shore’s landmark color photography from his road trips across North America in the 1970s and early 1980s. Known for capturing everyday places and objects with vivid color, meticulous detail, and striking clarity, Shore’s work helped establish color photography as a serious artistic medium and continues to influence contemporary photographic practice.
Through this conversation, attendees will gain insight into Shore’s approach, the enduring significance of Uncommon Places, and the ways photography can transform how we see the familiar in everyday life.
A reception will follow the talk, offering an opportunity to celebrate the exhibition and connect with fellow photography enthusiasts.
Co-presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Capture Photography Festival as part of the 2026 Capture Speaker Series and is generously supported by Claudia Beck. Capture’s 2026 Speaker Series is generously supported by The Michael and Inna O’Brian Family Foundation.
Please note: Capacity is limited. The first 120 attendees will be seated in the main stage space; remaining attendees can watch via live stream from overflow space in 4 East. Online streaming option will also be available. For access requests, email [email protected] or call 604 662 4700.
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Stephen Shore’s pioneering work has shaped contemporary photography for over four decades. He was the first living photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, and his influential exhibitions at Light Gallery in the 1970s helped establish color photography as a serious artistic medium. Shore’s work is included in the collections of major institutions worldwide. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art presented a landmark retrospective spanning his entire career, cementing his status as a central figure in photographic history. Shore has published more than 30 books, including Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, and authored The Nature of Photographs, a seminal text on visual perception. Since 1982, he has served as Director of the Photography Program and Susan Weber Professor in the Arts at Bard College. His work is represented by 303 Gallery in New York and Sprüth Magers in London, Berlin and Los Angeles.
Kristen Gaylord is the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Milwaukee Art Museum, where this year she will open Widline Cadet’s first solo exhibition at an American museum as well as Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography, a major survey of the relationship between photography and extractive industries in the U.S. from the 1840s until today, co-curated for the National Gallery of Art. Previously, Gaylord was a photography curator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, working with artists including Stephanie Syjuco and Camille Utterback and bringing landmark surveys of An-My Lê and Christina Fernandez to Fort Worth. Additionally, she co-organized Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood (2024), whose catalogue won Der Deutscher Fotobuchpreis. Gaylord also held multiple curatorial roles at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she contributed to exhibitions and publications including Stephen Shore (2017); Arbus Friedlander Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (2017); and Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
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