PhotoED MAGAZINE - WINTER 2019 - Risk Takers

WINTER 2019/2020

CANADIAN CREATIVE RISK-TAKERS

LET’S GET WEIRD.

EDITOR’S NOTE

DARE TO BE WEIRD photo by: Ryan Parker

CREATIVE RISKS AND PUSHING UP EYEBROWS

“Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.”

— Garry Winogrand

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What isn’t obvious in a photograph, and the story behind it, can often change your mind about whether you like or hate an image. I love being surprised by photographs. In this issue, we’re sharing work by daring Canadian artists guaranteed to raise your eyebrows! Work that pushes boundaries, blurs lines, and tests our perceptions has the power to redirect conversations, and I think that’s really exciting!

From artists that push their own physical boundaries such as Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, to those who bare their souls through social media such as Laurence Philomene, to those who experiment in weird and wonderful ways with the physicality of images such as Martine Marie-Anne Chartrand, Joseph R. Adam, and Nicholas Aiden, I’m enamoured by the resilience and tenacity of these visual artists. I hope you are inspired to take some creative risks after reading this issue.

This spring, in our next issue, we’re taking a more serious tone. Winter can be an especially hard time for a lot of people, and we’ve heard it from you dear readers, the practice of photography has saved and changed lives. Mental health is an issue that affects us all, directly or indirectly. The good news is that people are now talking about it.

Or, making pictures where words fail.

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COVER IMAGE

Andrijana Jelinic ‘Urban Bath’ by Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart.

Sage photographed herself in Toronto’s High Park pond, 2018.

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IN THIS ISSUE 6 RESOURCES WE LOVE 9 HALEY EYRE: NEW AND BONKERS

By Allison Penko 14 B EYOND THE SURFACE: WINDFIELDS MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROJECT

By Briar Chaput 17 JUSTIN ATKINS + STEVEN RESTAGNO: MIRAGE 18 SHANNON FITZGERALD: A LITTLE BIT WEIRD

By Joshua Cameron 20 NICHOLAS AIDEN: INTRODUCTIONS

22 SAGE SZKABARNICKI-STUART: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG WOMAN

By Peppa Martin 28 MARTINE MARIE-ANNE CHARTRAND: DRÔLE DE MÉNAGERIE 30 JOSEPH R. ADAM: BURN 32 LAURENCE PHILOMÈNE: IN LIVING COLOUR

By David Fulde 39 THEODORA MITRAKOS: MYTHOS

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