Our next Artist You Need To Know is Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903 – 1993). Lola Álvarez Bravo is acclaimed as the first Mexican female photographer and an essential artist – both in terms of photography and history – in the post – revolution (1910 to...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is Vincenzo Pietropaolo. Pietropaolo is a documentary photographer who captures his subjects and the situations they exist within with a strong sense of empathy and the historical moment, straddling the ideas of the personal experience...
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...
