Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ruth Kaplan. Ruth Kaplan (born 1955 in Montréal) is a Canadian “documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behaviour of bathers in communal hot springs, congregants participating...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fred Herzog (1930 – 2019). Fred Herzog’s artistic practice was an extension of his walking the streets of Vancouver (and almost forty other countries) with his Leica camera. Using colour slide film almost exclusively,...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jeff Thomas. Governor General Award winner Jeff Thomas is a photographer, curator, and cultural theorist. Self identifying as Urban-Iroquois, Thomas’ photographic practice re-contextualizes historical images of Indigenous...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is FIONA ANNIS. Annis is a multidisciplinary artist (often creating environments that employ visuals and sound) whose artwork often intersects with photography in both a contemporary and historical sense. She was born in Glasgow,...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is April Hickox. Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who has lived on the Toronto Islands since childhood and much of her practice is informed and shaped by her immediate environment. Over nearly...