Jake Kimble, Moribund, 2019, inkjet print, 78.74 x 60.96 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Svava Tergesen, Aged Gouda, 2019, archival pigment print, 58.42 x 48.26 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Svava Tergesen, Red Delicious, Pickled Herring, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Bruce Fraser, Enveloped in Color, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Wenqi Zhao, Kashgar XinJiang, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Wenqi Zhao, Kashgar XinJiang, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Sofia Junco, Untitled #3, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Heseltine, Regarding the Future, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Heseltine, Weeks Later, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Gloria Wong, Ngan, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Gloria Wong, Socks, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mary Rusak, Diatom 2, 2019, cyanotype print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mary Rusak, Volvox, 2019, cyanotype print. Courtesy of the artist.
Michele Bygodt, Studies of a Physical Structure in Nature, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Marija Kanavin, Lineage, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Marija Kanavin, Oma, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Delaney Soumang, Light By The Sea, from the Accumulation series, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Delaney Soumang, Dressing Room, from the Accumulation series, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Alan Lam, HK Protest, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeff Henschel, Standing Water, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Xanthe Kittson, Dionysus, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Luis Villarreal, ñañas 1, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mikhela Greiner, Huw, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mikhela Greiner, Wesley, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jake Kimble, Moribund, 2019, inkjet print, 78.74 x 60.96 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Svava Tergesen, Aged Gouda, 2019, archival pigment print, 58.42 x 48.26 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
Svava Tergesen, Red Delicious, Pickled Herring, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Bruce Fraser, Enveloped in Color, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Wenqi Zhao, Kashgar XinJiang, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Wenqi Zhao, Kashgar XinJiang, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Sofia Junco, Untitled #3, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Heseltine, Regarding the Future, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jackson Heseltine, Weeks Later, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Gloria Wong, Ngan, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Gloria Wong, Socks, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mary Rusak, Diatom 2, 2019, cyanotype print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mary Rusak, Volvox, 2019, cyanotype print. Courtesy of the artist.
Michele Bygodt, Studies of a Physical Structure in Nature, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Marija Kanavin, Lineage, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Marija Kanavin, Oma, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Delaney Soumang, Light By The Sea, from the Accumulation series, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Delaney Soumang, Dressing Room, from the Accumulation series, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Alan Lam, HK Protest, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Jeff Henschel, Standing Water, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Xanthe Kittson, Dionysus, 2020, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Luis Villarreal, ñañas 1, 2019, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mikhela Greiner, Huw, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Mikhela Greiner, Wesley, 2018, archival print. Courtesy of the artist.
Selected
Reading and Being Read
Cancelled | Virtual
Please note that this exhibition has been cancelled to ensure the health and safety of our community to flatten the curve of COVID-19.
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At a time when photographic images are omnipresent, one could ask: What’s the value of a photograph? Furthermore, at an art school where photography is taught: Why study photography? The students who are currently enrolled in the photography program at Emily Carr University of Art + Design have asked these questions and the exhibition Reading and Being Read is their answer.
In a world that is saturated by photographic imagery, one needs to be image literate. The ability to read and fully understand a photograph is necessary to create meaning and navigate the complexity of the world. The students chose the photographic medium to not only eloquently respond to the pressing questions asked by our current times but also by the photographic medium itself. In the twenty-first century, the photographic image clearly has expanded beyond the act of exposing a light-sensitive medium to capture the world. So, what is a photograph and how can it be read in the year 2020?
The exhibition Reading and Being Read brings together critical works by Emily Carr’s photography students including Luis Villarreal, Svava Tergesen, Bruce Fraser, Delaney Soumang, Jake Kimble, Andres Imperial and Mikhela Greinert, and traces a line through significant themes and ideas that are in correspondence with the asked questions. The photographs in the exhibition also address the complexities and various layers that are inherent within the photographic medium: reading the photograph is tied to our predispositions—some of which viewers are conscious of, while others remain subconscious influences. In the words of Susan Sontag, “considered in this light, the photographs are us.”
Reading and Being Read is an inquiry and a celebration of the photographic medium—from “straight forward” to abstract, from documentary to staged: the exhibition functions as a survey of the current state of the photographic image as well as an introduction to young and relevant voices working with the medium in Vancouver.
The printing of work by Svava Tergesen was supported by a Tricera Printing Grant.
