On Photographic Futures by Solana Cain

“What I want to see more of in photography’s future, and within the larger media industry, are contributors and content that is more reflective of this world’s great diversity and the variety of human experiences. My photographic future places less importance on the gear photographers use and more emphasis on who is behind the lens.”…

Alumni Spotlight with Noga Cadan

My recent work mostly revolves around my move to Vancouver—lots of images relating to transportation and the ocean that kind of feel like depictions of transition and independence. Q + A Tell us a bit about your most recent work. My recent work mostly revolves around my move to Vancouver—lots of images relating to transportation…

Alumni Spotlight with Stine Danielle

Q&a Tell us a bit about your most recent work. My most recent work investigates what it means for me to be a participant in outdoor recreation in North America. Informed by my lived experience, my identity as an immigrant woman of color, and research on the history of outdoor recreational spaces.  I examine outdoor…

Giovanni Capriotti: The Haweaters

The Haweaters examines the development of Manitoulin Island as a colonial micromodel upon which Canada and the genealogy of its multiculturalist meta-narrative were established. This continues to exist within the current neoliberal power structure, which advanced first through colonialism, then the industrial revolution and capitalism, and eventually the model for immigration, which was redefined by…

Maria Sofia Guevara: We’re Over Here

My thesis is about cultural identity. Specifically the disconnect of Filipinx identity. I wanted to portray these feelings, stories, moments of disconnect, so I reached out with many filipinxs in the GTA to showcase their moments of what disconnects them from the culture. Based on the immigration experience and Asian Diaspora in the West, this…

Christina Oyawale: Careworn & Coil

Let’s reevaluate our perceptions of private versus public life. I want you to understand that it’s not pretty, it’s raw, and it’s ugly. In the words of Mia Mingus, I would rather be “ugly—magnificently ugly” than “beautiful,” because I am flawed and sometimes need the space to remember that. I move on crip time, as…

Andy Nguyen: Memories of Home

Memories of Home is an ongoing project consisting of a photo series and video of the memories I captured while living in my hometown in Vietnam, where I grew up most of my life before moving to Canada, during high school. As a Southeast Asian queer and trans person, I’ve struggled with finding a sense…

Kayla Ward: Shrieking Sisterhood

Shrieking Sisterhood is a series of photographs that confront the historical fallacies of female hysteria. Consisting of object studies, trail cam imagery, and landscapes, this series uses techniques pulled from documentary photography as a way to explore the relationship between truth and image. Constructed faux documents loosely spread within the book aim to examine the…