From Street to Print: A Photographic Conversation

An artist talk with Richard Sandler and Ian McGuffie on street photography, the photographic print, and the image beyond the screen.

From Street to Print: A Photographic Conversation
with Richard Sandler & Ian McGuffie
Hosted by Andrew Legere

Limited seating available. Early arrival recommended.

As a participating event of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival, this event brings together photographers, artists, and the public for an evening focused on the photograph as a physical object.

Following a guided photowalk held on April 3 through Vancouver, this second part of the event shifts into the physical space. Twenty photographs made during the walk are professionally printed, and presented as a group. Not as images on a screen, but as something that can be held, examined, and understood in a different way.

Alongside these twenty prints, a selection of framed photographic work will be on display, including prints by Richard Sandler, Fred Herzog, Yousuf Karsh, and Brassaï, offering context for how photographic work has traditionally been presented and experienced in physical form.

The evening includes a panel discussion with Richard Sandler and Ian McGuffie.

Richard Sandler is an internationally recognized New York street photographer and documentary filmmaker, known for decades of work documenting life in New York City. His photographs are held in major public collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of the City of New York, and he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking. His perspective is grounded in long term, real world observation of the street and the photographic image.

Ian McGuffie is Head of the Photography Department at the Vancouver Institute of Media Arts, former director of the Exposure Photography Gallery, a recipient of an international Nikon award, and served on the board of the Capture Photography Festival for over a decade. Through his curatorial work, he has brought internationally recognized photography to Vancouver and has played a key role in shaping how photography is taught, discussed, and presented.

Together, they bring two important perspectives. One rooted in making the work, the other in shaping how the work is seen, understood, and presented.

At its core, this is a conversation about the photograph as an object. While many images exist digitally, a printed photograph holds a different presence, shaped by scale, material, and how it is experienced in the physical world.

The discussion also considers how photographs are presented. Framed, matted, or simply pinned to a wall. The way a photograph is displayed shapes how it is read.

This idea is not new. Alfred Stieglitz helped establish photography as a fine art form in the early 20th century through his New York gallery 291. While known for carefully mounted exhibitions, the space also embraced a more direct and immediate approach, where prints were sometimes pinned to the wall, emphasizing the photograph itself over presentation.

This event continues that conversation. Moving photography away from the screen and back into the physical world, where scale, material, and presence matter.

The evening is both a showcase and an open discussion. A chance to look closely, ask questions, and reconsider how photographs are made, printed, and experienced.