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RESOURCES WE LOVE By Alan Bulley
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SCARBOROUGH MADE: COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS By Sid Naidu
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CHASING LIGHT IS CHASING LIFE by Rocio Graham
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ADAM SWICA: RENDERING LIGHT By Corinna vanGerwen
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RITA LEISTNER & DON MCKELLAR: SEARCHING FOR LIGHT IN DARK TIMES By Craig D’Arville
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THIERRY DU BOIS: LIT FROM WITHIN By Alan Bulley
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PORTFOLIO Featuring: Henry VanderSpek, Monica Rooney, Amy Friend, Grant Withers, Nikki Baxendale, Jennifer Gilbert, Felicity Somerset, Alan McCord, and Pablo Villegas
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ILLUSION OF FORM AND SPACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF ANN PICHÉ By Darren Pottie
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VICKI DASILVA: RUNNING WITH LIGHT By Rita Godlevskis
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SOFT-FOCUS AND SERENDIPITY: PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY By Peppa Martin
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THE GALLERY Submissions by our readers
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LIGHT AND SHADE: MINNA KEENE & VIOLET KEENE PERINCHIEF By Mina Markovic
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OUR 70TH PRINT EDITION shares contemporary visual depictions of electromagnetic radiation and its unique qualities, opening our eyes to the power of light through a new lens.
A photographer once approached me with an interesting idea for an article that has stayed with me for years. We talked about the quality of light in different parts of the world and how light varies in different geographies. I had witnessed this myself in my own travels but lacked a way to explain this with words. I have always hoped that this person would follow through with the proposed article, but perhaps, describing qualities of light in words is a futile exercise anyway. The artists in this issue work with light as the basis of their photography, taking their explorations to new levels. Ann Piché crafts her images featuring light as her central subject; while Thierry du Bois creates abstract visions from the glow of urban architecture at night; and Vicki DaSilva uses light as a tool to create graffiti only visible with a camera. Meanwhile,
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Adam Swica, Rita Leistner and Don McKellar play with light to create visual narratives for viewers to question. Looking ahead, our Fall 2024 edition will explore what photographs do best: stop time. Capturing a moment, whether a split-second action or an encapsulation of the slow passage of time, is one of the most beautiful and impactful things a single image can convey. This upcoming edition will present photography that reveals TIME. If your work embraces time from a fresh perspective, find out more about making a submission on our website. Follow us on Instagram, Patreon, and Facebook, and sign up for our e-newsletter to keep up with all our adventures!
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BROUGHT TO LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE INVISIBLE, 1840—1900 By Corey Keller, editor We all walk around with a camera in our pocket, so it’s easy to take photography for granted and forget that capturing light is still relatively new. In more than 200 beautiful images, Brought to Light takes us to the days when science began to show wonders no one had seen before: distant galaxies, X-rays of the body, traces of lightning, and motion too fast or too slow for the eye to register. In just a few decades, photography extended the reach of humanity’s vision through time and space, changed how artists represent the visual world, and raised doubts about the reliability of our own eyes. A revolution in a box. Hardcover, 2008, 216 pages $81 + shipping
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LIGHTING FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM SNAPSHOTS TO GREAT SHOTS PILGRIMAGE By Annie Leibovitz Quick: Annie Leibovitz — an entire football team of assistants setting lights, changing digital backs, and blowing hair with fans, right? But this book is Annie shooting for herself. Pilgrimage is a quiet book, a very personal record of Annie’s travels to places associated with people she admires, from Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron to neurologist Sigmund Freud and beyond, without leaving out Elvis, of course. It’s not a new book, and the text is not always great reading, but it is instructive to see how a craftsperson can document a story — interiors, exteriors, closeups, and landscapes — with a simple camera and an eye for beautiful light. Hardcover, 2011, 246 pages $43 + shipping
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By Syl Arena Pssst … A lot of photographers have a dark secret: they are helpless if the sun isn’t cooperating. If you don’t own a reflector or are frightened by flash, expand your toolkit by learning how to recognize, make, and shape good light. Your photography (and enjoyment) will improve almost immediately. There are tons of books and videos on the topic, but this one is a bit different: instead of showing off dozens of intimidating pictures made by a professional, Syl Arena makes it easy to learn through easy-to-follow examples. Don’t be at the mercy of the sun — put an end to your flash-phobia today! Paperback, 2012, 288 pages $37 or Kindle $20
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SCARBOROUGH MADE: COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS BY SID NAIDU
SCARBOROUGH MADE (SM) IS A SOCIAL IMPACT ORGANIZATION that champions documentary storytelling through photography and video in Toronto’s East. Cofounded by Alex Narvaez and Sid Naidu in 2019, the group aims to shift how underserved communities are portrayed in the media and support emerging BIPoC youth in pursuing creative projects that intersect with community building. The project provides mentorship and employment opportunities for documentary storytelling, public art, and creative placemaking. We started SM to shed new light on the people and communities we grew up around. While we accomplished this through documentary storytelling and public art, our youth mentorships showed us the need to build a multifaceted intervention that could have a lasting positive impact on our neighbourhoods. ABOVE: Community worker Mike Israel stands at a skate park in Neilson Park, Scarborough, which he advocated for through the 42 Rides initiative while working at the Malvern Family Resource Centre. Photo by Daren Valdez. BELOW: Youth artist Daren Valdez documents a story on 42 Rides at Neilson Park in Scarborough. Photo by Ziyaad Haniff. INSET: SM founders Sid Naidu + Alex Narvaez.
This year, SM celebrates five years of community arts programming. We continue to be guided by our purpose of shedding light on positive community stories overshadowed by mainstream media. SM youth artists Daren Valdez and Millicent Amurao are great examples of youth who have contributed to our community through their unique visions and projects. Daren is part of a cohort of youth artists who documented the story behind 42 Rides, an initiative by the Malvern Family Resource Centre. The organization works to make skateboarding more accessible for local residents. Daren’s start in visual photo ED 11
storytelling came from his love of photographing skateboarding. Working with the SM team, he produced a story about Mike Israel, a community worker who advocated for building a permanent outdoor skate park in Malvern.
“The power of coming together is so important, and you can accomplish more than you think.” — Daren Valdez
“My hope is that other parts of the city see this story and become motivated to advocate for skate parks in their neighbourhoods,” says Daren. “The power of coming together is so important, and you can accomplish more than you think.” Through SM, Daren learned how to become more precise in his storytelling and editing to engage audiences new to his story. Millicent joined SM in our inaugural program in 2021. Over the last three years, she has helped SM grow and support the creation of stories by other youth artists. She works as a coordinator for our production unit. Recently Millicent documented the Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care, a volunteer-run clinic in Scarborough that has supported Canada’s most vulnerable populations for over 25 years. The Centre has been pivotal in addressing the urgent need for health equity by acting as doctors within borders to provide care for refugees and migrants who cannot access Canada’s healthcare system. Millicent shares her experience from the assignment: “It was insightful learning how to refine my photojournalism skills and getting pointers on what to look for and how to frame my images for editorial work.” Through SM, she also learned aspects of journalism ethics, understanding how to be mindful of privacy in a health setting and composing images to protect patients’ identities.
ABOVE: Daniel Zhen Tao, Dr. Paul Caulford, and Liberty Andaya, the team from the Canadian Centre for Refugee & Immigrant Healthcare. Photo by Millicent Amurao.
BELOW: Youth artist Millicent Amurao poses for the camera as part of the inaugural Scarborough Made mentorship program . Photo by Sid Naidu.
Millicent shares her hopes for our storytelling work: “I love the work that we do, creating and sharing narratives from our community, and I am excited to show people not only the resilience of Scarborough but also how much culture lives here.” Millicent started with our mentorship program to shed light on her community and now contributes to the SM team to help others do the same. Her involvement with SM demonstrates the full-circle experience for change that we always strive to achieve. As SM celebrates a five-year milestone programming community arts, we continue to learn from organizations like these working in our community. We are grateful for the youth artists who have carried the torch to continue the vital storytelling work needed, and we look forward to being a part of a brighter collective future. 12 photo ED
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ADAM SWICA RENDERING LIGHT BY CORINNA VANGERWEN THERE’S A MOMENT at the beginning of the day, as the sun comes up, when the light is unlike any other time. And it’s different every day. Sometimes a monotone grey sky cycles through ever-lightening shades, or a streak of gold forces itself upwards, or flaming pink clouds march across a swath of blue. “You can feel the changes as you’re watching,” says photographer Adam Swica, who observes this natural display from bed, half-awake, morning after morning. “It changes so quickly that the light shifts all the time.”
With large windows facing both east and west, briefly, each dawn, light projects through the room’s east window to its west window, into a still darkened sky. This fleeting experience is what Adam has re-created in his Daybreak series. Each photo in the series shows the same scene: a view of the city skyline outside a window, framed by the foliage of a tree, with the reflection of more windows in the glass.
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SEARCHING FOR LIGHT IN DARK TIMES RITA LEISTNER IN CONVERSATION WITH CRAIG D’ARVILLE
CAST YOUR MIND BACK TO 2020 and, if you dare, recollect how you spent your time during the lockdown days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some artists chose to focus on studio-based practices, while more rebellious types, such as Rita Leistner, went out into the world, masked and under the cover of darkness, with camera in hand.
Renowned for her work in photojournalism and projects such as Forest for the Trees, Toronto-based photographer Rita Leistner, succumbed to the restlessness of lockdown along with her friend and collaborator, filmmaker Don McKellar. Together they created an astonishing series of photographs that are in turns playful, poignant, nearly feral, and experimental. The result is Infinite Distance - Nocturnal Pandemic Urban Dreams. Curious to know more, I invited Rita to talk about these collaborative compositions.
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“After Sebastianus Patron Saint Of Plagues" © Rita Leistner and Don McKellar, courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery and FFOTO.com
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VICKI DASILVA:
RUNNING WITH LIGHT AN INTERVIEW WITH RITA GODLEVSKIS
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LEFT: “East River Esplanade #1,” 2014 RIGHT: From the Light Tartans series, “Burberry House Check,” 2009
VICKI DASILVA CREATES TIME EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHS using light as her drawing tool. Based in Inverness, Nova Scotia, her practice includes text-based light graffiti works, urban and rural light painting landscapes, and “light tartans” created with tube lamps patterned with colour filters.
Vicki’s work has been featured in exhibitions internationally and has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, The Guardian, among many others. Vicki is represented by Katzman Art Projects in Halifax. We asked her some questions about what she does and why she does it.
What is it about creating stories through photography and light that you love? I am most interested in creating images that speak to the times we are living in and that deal with topics that matter most to me personally. I try to combine those two objectives simultaneously while making art. I love the act of drawing cursive handwriting text with light that mimics spray paint across facades. I use a round fluorescent lamp to mimic bubble letters similar to spray-painted graffiti “throwies.” I love that in certain locations it feels like I’m doing something illegal, but in fact my action is always legal and harmless, as its result exists only as a photograph. I love that light painting photography is created in the dark and the particulars and challenges that come with working at night or in the dark.
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ABOVE: Images by SAMANTHA WYATT RIGHT: Samantha’s pinhole camera , a jewellery box.
wizardry,” calling it both primitive and tricky at the same time. The whole process taught her to read light by looking up to the sky. In a notebook, she charted descriptions of the clouds, the time of day, and corresponding exposure times. “A lot of effort goes into creating a single picture. The process demands that I think carefully about what I am doing,” she adds. “Pinhole photography has a dream-like quality that I cannot achieve using other cameras. There is sharpness and softness, all at the right measure. More and more, I am drawn to a less perfect image, to a soft-focused memory.”
THEY CONTINUE TO FASCINATE IMAGE-MAKERS WHO ENJOY THE CREATIVE CHALLENGE THEY OFFER. Samantha Wyatt constructed a camera from a jewellery box to create her pinhole image as “a fun test of balance (literally), light, timing, and giggle control.” With an interest in people and portraiture, she planned a kiss as her shot. “I thought the pose could be cute as well as interesting. It was a fun idea but turned out to be much more challenging than I had anticipated!” she confessed. She recounts that the process “was probably 45 minutes of set up, pose, a 10-second exposure, run inside to develop, re-adjust the position of the camera, repeat. Challenging? Yes, but also rewarding!” Daniel Bouman has made pinhole cameras out of several different containers: an oval mixed nuts can, a coffee tin, a 35mm film canister, and cardboard and wooden boxes. He has used 35mm and 120mm roll film, as well as 4×5 and 8×10 sheet film. Having spent years as a commercial photographer, he claims to “love pinholes the best!” He describes, “Pinholes have certain powerful technical capacities, like the ability to create extreme wide-angle views and to exploit near and far relationships. I love the soft aesthetic of the images. I have learned from this process to be fussy about what I can control and to be open to a process that I can step into but not entirely control, sort of like stepping into a river.”
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ABOVE: Images by DANIEL BOUMAN LEFT: Daniel’s pinhole camera .
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GuruShots’ challenges are voted on by the platform’s Gurus and the wider community, with a fresh challenge every day. Winners can receive prizes from GuruShots’ sponsors such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro, and Lensbaby. From city streets to ocean views, the Lighting Challenge showcases a world of wonderful images from around the globe.
1. GURU'S TOP PICK WINNER Jan Chan • Hong Kong
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LIGHT AND SHADE: MINNA KEENE AND VIOLET KEENE PERINCHIEF BY MINA MARKOVIC In these two portraits by Minna Keene (1859–1943) and Violet Keene Perinchief (1893–1987), a diffuse, atmospheric light illuminates a self-assured woman and a demure debutante on the cusp of adulthood. For both photographers, light played a central role in the construction of their portraits as reflections of their sitters’ inner and outer worlds. Minna was a pictorialist who used photography to emphasize beauty and emulate classical paintings. Violet adapted her mother’s aesthetic, modernizing it by applying sharper focus and subtler retouching. Minna had an acute eye for utilizing natural light to transform her sitters from the quotidian to the mythological, while Violet was particularly skilled at mimicking natural light in a studio setting using lights and props. Minna was one of the first women admitted as a fellow to the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, then the highest honour bestowed on a photographer. In 1903, Minna and her family emigrated from England to Cape Town, South Africa, and later settled in Canada in 1913. Minna opened several portrait LEFT: Minna Keene, Fruit and Sunlight, 1903–1913, carbon print. The Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection, The Image Centre, Gift of Sturrup Family, 2020. RIGHT: Violet Keene Perinchief, Miss Belinda Lyon, ca. 1933–1948, gelatin silver print. The Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection, The Image Centre, Gift of Sturrup Family, 2020. 62 photo ED
studios in Montréal and Toronto, which Violet helped to manage. In 1921, the Keene family moved to Oakville, Ontario, where Minna ran a home studio until her death in 1943. Violet managed the Eaton’s Portrait Studio in Toronto from 1932 to 1948, where she primarily photographed brides, debutantes, children, and families. On occasion, her sitters included prominent cultural figures from Canada and abroad, such as past Governor General of Canada Vere Ponsonby, Amelia Earhart, and Aldous Huxley. From 1948 until 1974, Violet ran a studio from the Oakville house, continuing her mother’s legacy. After having achieved success during their lifetimes only to fall into posthumous obscurity, in recent years the work of Minna and Violet and their contributions to Canadian photo-history are slowly reemerging in the public consciousness. The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University now holds the comprehensive Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection, which will be featured in a major survey exhibition in 2026.
This feature was produced with the support of the Photographic Historical Society of Canada. www.phsc.ca
Remarkable photographs of Canada from the photo archive of The New York Times—now online
Photographies remarquables du Canada provenant des archives photographiques du New York Times—maintenant en ligne
The Image Centre’s (IMC) Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection comprises more than 21,000 photographs of Canadian subjects, from political events, to wartime conflicts, to travel documentation, to portraits of notable and everyday Canadians. Explore the collection at theimagecentre.ca/collections/
La collection de la famille Rudolph P. Bratty du The Image Centre (IMC) comprend plus que 21 000 photographies de sujets canadiens, qu’il s’agisse d’événements politiques, de conflits en temps de guerre, de documents de voyage ou de portraits de Canadiens célèbres ou ordinaires. Découvrez la collection à theimagecentre.ca/collections/
Unknown photographer, [Victoria, B.C. saying farewell to 88 Battalion], Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1914–1916, gelatin silver print. The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection, The Image Centre
Photographe inconnu, [Victoria, C.-B. faisant ses adieux au 88e bataillon], Victoria, Colombie-Britannique, Canada, 1914-1916, épreuve à la gélatine argentique. Collection de la famille Rudolph P. Bratty, The Image Centre
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