EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2020 FESTIVAL EVALUATION
859,543 VISITS TO EXPOSURE EXHIBITIONS
Statistics provided by Arts Commons, Brookfield Place/NPAC, Calgary Transit, Central Library/Alberta Society of Artists, Christine Klassen Gallery, Contemporary Calgary, Cspace/Anne Tapler White, Exposure Photography Festival/The Little Gallery/The 621 Gallery, Framed on Fifth, Glenbow, Herringer Kiss Gallery, HUB@302, Jarvis Hall Gallery, MPI/Vistek, Mount Royal University, Newzones Gallery, Nickle Galleries, The Camera Store, The Edge Gallery, TRUCK, Trepanier Baer, Vivianeart, Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies, Canmore Art Guild, The Sisters Gallery, Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre and The Gallery at Casa. Visitors to Exposure’s public art exhibition ’The FENCE’ was estimated using statistics provided by Calgary Transit. For more information, please contact beth@exposurephotofest.com
EXHIBITIONS
41 Exhibitions 268 Exhibiting Artists 184 Alberta Based Exhibiting Artists
EVENTS
25 Festival Events
1435 Event Attendees
16 out of 19 Exposure Events were FREE Free events included Exhibition Tours, Artist Talks, Discussion Panel, Portfolio Walk and more! Our free event program provided professional development opportunities and places to connect to local photography and creative communities. Exposure hosted 2 Instagram Live Exhibition Tours to allow access to our program online for those unable to visit our exhibitions physically.
ACCESSIBLE ARTS
ACCESSIBLE ARTS
69% of event attendees at the Exposure Exhibition Tour and Magenta Exhibition Opening Party stated that they had visited one exhibition in the past 12 months (46%) or 6 months (23%) .
92% of attendees at the Exposure Exhibition Tour and Magenta Exhibition Opening Party stated that the event was the first Exposure event they had ever attended (46%) or the first Exposure event that they had attended this year (46%) .
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
118 Participants in Professional Practice Development Opportunities 45 Portfolio Review Participants
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
15 Portfolio Walk Participants 57% of participants stated that they had never participated in a professional practice event prior to the Exposure Portfolio Walk. Feedback forms stated that participants were ‘looking for more professional practice opportunities’ and ‘have been trying to participate in professional practice events in the past’.
15,049 Exposure Online Audience during the Festival Period 12,550 Exposure Online Engagement during the Festival Period Social Media during the Festival Period, Jan. 31 until Mar. 1 660 Mentions 3,493 Post Engagement 37,007 Post Reach 1,740 Profile Visits
ONLINE ENGAGEMENT
FESTIVAL GUIDES
2,125 Online readers
3,000 Printed Guides Distributed
FESTIVAL LEGACY
73% of Portfolio Walk participants stated that they ‘feel more connected to Calgary’s photo/art scenes and creative communities’ and 60% of participants stated that they had ‘made new connections’. 93% of Portfolio Review participants stated that they received ‘great feedback that advanced their thinking about their practice’ and 50% received ‘great advice about how to gain exposure and opportunities within the arts’. 70% of attendees at the Ask Me Anything Panel (Social Media & Business Tools that work for Creatives) stated that they ‘gained valuable knowledge that will better inform their professional practice’.
If you have any questions regarding the information or statistics presented in the Exposure 2020 Evaluation, or if you represent an organisation that would like to participate in Exposure 2021, please contact Festival Coordinator Beth Kane via beth@exposurephotofest.com Special thank you to photographer, Jeff Yee, whose images are presented on slides 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 11.
THANK YOU TO THE EXPOSURE 2020 FUNDERS, PARTNERS & SPONSORS
THANK YOU TO THE EXPOSURE 2020 PARTICIPATING GALLERIES & ORGANISATIONS
THANK YOU TO THE EXPOSURE 2020 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHERS Ala Buisir, Sandra Chen Weinstein, Arianne Clément, Peter Greendale, Philip Harris, Lucky Keller, Robert Lie, Patrick McCloskey, Mark Murphy, Graeme Oxby, Angeline Simon, Sunny Strader, Anne Tapler White, Emma Wilson, Denis Wong, Boon Ong, Wilmer Aburto, Jayden Daniels, Manikarnika Kanjilal, Liam Kavanagh-Bradette, Jake Kimble, Sasha Lavoie, Michelle Lazo, Nahanni McKay, Zachary Morris, J. Ashley Nixon, Lily Pavle, Andres Porras, Colleen Rauscher, Toni Reed, Nicholas Taylor, Curtis Collin, Dan Jackson, Nathan Jones, Callan Field, Evan Rensch, Larry Louie, Daniel Fox, Shira Gold, Alicia Rius Marlena Waldthausen, Heather Evans Smith, Faiham Ebna Sharif, Ciril Jazbec, Jamey Stillings, Victoria Bouloubasis, Adrien Broom, Zhou HanShun, Francis Meslet, Tim Smith, William Widmer, Joyce Reinertson, Jose A. Alvarado Jr. , Dominic Episcopo, Raul Ariano, Rachel Wisniewski, Miora Rajaonary, Alice Zilberberg, Etinosa Yvonne, Michael George, Anna Beeke, Ed Kashi, Jose Snook, Robin Michals, Antonio Pedro Schubert, Magali Chesnel, Joannie Lafreniere, Jesse Rieser, Matt Eich, Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, Alain Schroeder, Rachel Bee Porter, Jake Belcher, Lloyd Kofi Foster, Tsz Wah, Erik Paul Howard, Amber Bracken, Keri Oberly, Nwel Saturay,Eileen Blanco-Castillo, Annabelle Clarin, Eric Dizon, Kim Gabrido, Len Jerusalem, Lea Luciano, Lyla Luciano, Marco Luciano, Lionel Migrino, Ruby Rosa Navio, Cynthia Palmaria, Lovella Penaranda-Dizon, Novie Mae Sambat, Qianyun Wang, Jay Zapata, Ben Cope, Julya Hajnoczky, Stefanie Villeneuve, Lee Nordbye, Scott Campbell, Samantha Chrysanthoa, Darwin Wiggett, Kathleen Davies, Vivian Maier, Mitch Kern, Brenna Shannon, Noel Rozario, Olivier Du Tre, akunnirun kuupak, Danielle Nicol, Boon Ong, Kevin Sternhouse, Arete (Tula) Edmunds, Chris Gibbs, Dana Serban, Deborah MacEwan, Emma Macdonald, Janice Meyers-Forman, Joan Fox, Joe Desjardins, Keith Fox, Wendi Forster, Curtis (Dez) Desiatnyk, Jeremy Fokkens, Asim Overstands, Zach Polis, Cary Schatz, Dianne Bos, Axel Breutigam, George Byrne, Franco DeFrancesca, John Folsom, James Holroyd, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Virginia Mak, Stuart McCall, Sarah Nind, Diana Thoneycroft, Martin Spriggs, Julian and Bianxa Ferreira, The Camera Store Staff, Chris Malloy, Monica Glitz, Lisa Murzin, Paulette Michayluk, Samuel de Lange, Wyn Geleynse, Danny Singer, Laura St. Pierre, Richard Brown, Steve Kolodinsky, Kevin McCormick, Leila McDowell, Alexis McKeown, Amber Hall, Bexx Ferri, Billie Marlow, Brian Kinzie, Chad O’Hare, Gerogi Silckerodt, Kathleen Davies, Kelly Schovanek, Kit Huffer, Ottmar Philipp, Patrick McCloskey, Scott and Harry Rowed, John Anvik, Ralph Arnold, Gord Ayers, George Clayton, June Crighton, Wayne Dwornik, Rolf Falschebner, Serge Faudin, Kandra Forbes, Judy Gundlock, Lorelei Hoffarth, John Krampl, Kathleen Klemen, Byron Lee, Sigrid Miklos, Trever Miller, Denise Nilsson, Trevor Page, Doug Petriw, Annetta Slingerland, Doug Wilde, Carla Whiteside and MORE!