Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ilse Bing (1899 – 1998). Bing was a German photographer who worked both in the artistic sphere as well as the commercial one. Referred to as “the Queen of Leica” in the 1930s, she is best known for her striking black and...
Our next Artist You Need To Know is O. Winston Link (1914 – 2001). Ogle Winston Link was an American photographer (though he was trained and worked as a civil engineer) whose many black and white photographs and sound recordings of the ‘last days of steam...
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 Mary Ellen Mark (1941–2015). It is difficult to imagine contemporary photography and especially photography in the United States without the contributions and legacy of Mary Ellen Mark. She was an American photographer known for her...
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...
