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“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” —
DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?
When photographs were a new invention viewers took them at face value. Today’s astute audiences must analyze images, questioning context, intent, and timeline to draw conclusions, all in a matter of seconds. This analysis may not be accurate, but often it’s all we have time for before moving along to the next image presented in front of us.
The artists in our print and digital extra editions have produced time-bending works that ask viewers for more. The payoff is not only a visual reward, but also the gift of an idea when considering one’s own future recordings.
In print, Sylvia Galbraith records room-size camera obscura images with such clarity; her work is a time-blending puzzle. Bret Culp uses the same tool, a pinhole camera, to create a single image recording: the passage of time over days, weeks, and months. Zinnia Naqvi’s art practice embraces 1980s images from her family albums to question colonial influence and (re)present her experience to new audiences — perhaps relating to viewers’ own experiences and influencing recollections of whatever a “Canadian experience” means to them.
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Looking ahead, our Winter 2024 edition will celebrate COLOUR and photography. Not only are colours some of the most fun and joyful elements to explore in photography, but they can also hold incredible significance as nostalgic triggers and symbols for social change.
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The elements of photography are simple: light, time, and a light-sensitive surface (usually, but not always, in a dark box). For over 50 years, Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has worked those basic elements like a wizard. He explores the qualities of light and time like few other photographers, and this book, a compilation of the images in a major retrospective of the same name, is a testament to his skill. Also included are essays on Hiroshi’s work and contributions to photography. Whether he is photographing waves on seascapes around the world, experimenting with colour, or recording a feature-length movie on a single piece of film, Hiroshi’s conceptual art will make you reflect on what it means to practise the art of alchemy with light and time. - Alan Bulley
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Manufacturers, shops, brands, and distributors donate the raw materials for these wooden watches from skateboards deemed unrideable. Each watch is one-of-a-kind. This little pop-of-colour on your wrist will not only keep you on time for your next photo shoot, but also help you to arrive in style!
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20 SECONDS MAGAZINE
If you’re feeling like it’s time for something new, check out 20 Seconds Magazine. 20 Seconds is a print-only, reader-supported magazine founded by a Canadian journalist based in Berlin. The publication features photography, long-form journalism, poetry, interviews, experimental music, and more.
The name 20 Seconds grew out of an ironic take on the state of cultural journalism. The team felt that much of what they saw in general media was created to be processed and released again in short periods of time.
Their publication is created so that each piece of content and engagement with the magazine takes much longer and requires repeat visits to enjoy its full worth. Their mission statement says they are “built by and for designers, writers and photographers who feel they’re not being challenged enough by what they’re reading and seeing,” and they are looking to prove that “print is not dead and neither is honesty or independence.”
Primarily distributed in Europe, 20 Seconds is available in Canada by ordering online from our friends at Issues Magazine shop in Toronto.
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MANAGING YOUR TIME
Productive? Focused? Calm? How’s your attention span?
Chris Bailey is a Canadian author and speaker obsessed with productivity. His books offer numerous ways not only to get more done, but also to think strategically about directing our energies, finding focus, and navigating towards calm. His books offer readers fresh new ways to think about, and traverse productivity.
Chris’ books, The Productivity Project, How to Calm Your Mind, and Hyperfocus are available as hard copies from public libraries across Canada or for purchase online through indigo.ca, as well as in audiobook formats (on various platforms) for the multitaskers among us.
From across the pond, poet and creative coach Mark McGuinness has written Time Management for Creative People, a free, short PDF download with a few quick tips to help you get organized. It’s from 2007, so a few references (like keeping up with your Blackberry) may be a little dated, but you can still get great value from his general ideas. We like that Mark focuses on the uniqueness of work and life balance for creative folks. Topics include finding the method in your creative madness, getting in the right state of mind for focused work, and minimizing interruptions and distractions.
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SCARBOROUGH MADE:
CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF COMMUNITY STORYTELLING
BY SID NAIDU
SCARBOROUGH MADE (SM) IS A SOCIAL IMPACT ORGANIZATION that champions documentary storytelling through photography and filmmaking in Toronto’s East. Co-founded by Alex Narvaez and Sid Naidu in 2019, the collective aims to shift how underserved communities are portrayed in the media and support BIPOC youth artists in pursuing careers in the creative industries.
As professional artists, Alex and Sid have produced storytelling and community-building projects both locally and internationally for over ten years, working with large brands, non-profit organizations, and government institutions to champion storytelling around culture and change.
Their kinship and bond over their common experiences of growing up in Scarborough sparked an interest in contributing to their community as artists. They saw an opportunity to use their storytelling skills to highlight local people, places, and cultures by creating SM.
As the organization celebrates five years of programming, co-founders Alex and Sid reflect on what they have accomplished.
Alex: While Scarborough has always been a large cultural contributor to Toronto, it hasn’t always been positively portrayed in traditional media. If you’re from here, you know that it is a place of resilience. It’s where many immigrant families have gotten a second chance and created opportunities to do better for themselves.
TOP: A series of portraits from the first set of stories produced for Scarborough Made (SM) in 2019.
ABOVE: The SM - Resilience public art installation at Toronto Public Library’s Cedarbrae Branch in 2021. INSET: SM founders Sid Naidu + Alex Narvaez.
Sid: Alex knows this story firsthand as a refugee who came with his family from El Salvador, and my family has a similar story of migration coming from the Middle East. SM started as we looked to document and share more local stories of identity, resilience, grit, and perseverance.
Alex: It’s a beautiful thing to see the evolution of something that we started as a grassroots arts project turn into something that became so much bigger for the wider community. This project really started as a way to give back.
Sid: When we started SM, there wasn’t a blueprint for what we were trying to accomplish. Drawing from our lived experiences of being raised in Scarborough, we formed the foundational pillars of the project over time to focus on documentary storytelling, creative youth mentorships, and public art.
Sid: In our founding year, we created the first original 26 SM stories from our own pockets and launched a crowdfunding campaign that raised just over $3000 to produce our first public art installation at Nuit Blanche Toronto. Year one gave us the proof of concept that this was something that people in Scarborough wanted to see.
Alex: Being able to present our own photography and video work to our local community was already a huge accomplishment and it was something we felt great about but we knew there was more that we needed to do to carry the idea forward.
Sid: For us this meant looking at how we could build capacity in our neighbourhoods by enabling future generations with the tools and skills to be storytellers for their communities. We paused in 2020 during the pandemic and then launched our first mentorship program in 2021 with funding from the City of Toronto and Toronto Arts Council. We learned a lot from our first youth mentorship pilot and it showed us the importance of engaging BIPOC youth artists and supporting them in their own careers.
Alex: We went from documenting stories and putting up our artwork on the walls of Scarborough in year one to working alongside youth to help them reach their creative potential and put up their artwork in public libraries and transit stations in year two.
Sid: SM evolved to become a multifaceted intervention for community arts, enabling youth to become documentary storytellers and allowing them to showcase their work in public spaces as well. Five years since the idea started, and we’ve documented 52 stories from communities, mentoring over 26 BIPOC youth artists and by the end of 2024 we will have produced eight unique public art activations in the community. Having accomplished what we first set out to achieve when we started the work, we are now excited about future evolutions that
“We
want to encourage communities across Canada and beyond to take control of their own narratives and tell their own stories that celebrate the everyday heroes of their local neighbourhoods.”
—AlexNarvaez
find new ways to support youth and communities through local storytelling at a professional calibre.
Alex: As we celebrate our milestone, we want to encourage communities across Canada and beyond to take control of their own narratives and tell their own stories that celebrate the everyday heroes of their local neighbourhoods. We hope we can inspire more underrepresented communities like Scarborough to go on to develop their own “Made” projects.
For more information about this project, please visit: scarboroughmade.com
ABOVE: Behind the scenes, Alex Narvaez documents author Natasha Ramoutar at Scarborough Bluffs in 2019.
BELOW: People gather at the SM public art installation for Nuit Blanche in the Scarborough Civic Centre Loading Docks in 2019.
PHOTO PHENOLOGY
1. Patricia Kozubski • Kamloops, BC
2. Henry VanderSpek • Toronto, ON
Leah Murray • Surrey, BC
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“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
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1. Anaïs Are • Toronto, ON
2. CB Campbell • Thunder Bay, ON
3. Donna McFarlane • Bayfield, ON
4. Lisa Murzin • Toronto, ON
5. Jody van der Kwaak • Georgetown, ON
6. Lori Ryerson • Toronto, ON
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
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1. Chris Goodyear • Kanata, ON
2. Frank Myers • Burlington, ON
3. Nancy Stirpe • Vaughan, ON
4. Jude Marion • Hamilton, ON
5. Ian Brunt • Waterloo, ON
6. Patricia Parsons • Ottawa, ON
7. hckygrlphoto • Toronto, ON
8. Mandy Klein • Newmarket, ON
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.”
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1. Tracey Halladay • Elkford, BC
2. John Honek • St. Agatha, ON
3. Akemi Matsubuchi • St. Albert, AB
4. Carol How • Surrey, BC
5. Micah Klein • Newmarket, ON
WINTER
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
SaraRaasch, Snow Like Ashes
1. Chris Alic • St. Catharines, ON
2. Vera Saltzman • Fort Qu'Appelle, SK
3. Bob Royer • Edmonton, AB
4. John Healey • Ottawa, ON
5. Emma Juliette Sherland • Mississauga, ON
6. Alan Bulley • Gatineau, QC
7. Alan McCord • Georgetown, ON 8. David Brandy • Clarksburg, ON
Troy Glover • Watson Lake, YT
“THEY PAVED PARADISE, PUT UP A PARKING LOT.”
– JONI MITCHELL
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BY CASSANDRA SPIRES
The Mountain Legacy Project is a collection of some of the most urgent and compelling photographic representations of time.Directed by Eric Higgs and founded by Higgs and Jeanine Rhemtulla, the project’s mandate is to “explore changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes over time through photographic comparisons.”
The project is home to a collection of over 120 000 historical mountain photographs from nineteenth- and early twentiethcentury systematic surveys,20 000 of which are available online,as well as over 10 000 new comparative photographs. Participants both care for the archival collection and build on it, revisiting the coordinates of historical images to create new comparison images. While the project’s primary contributors are graduate students, members also include research assistants, external contractors, and volunteers. Katelyn Fryer, the project’s archivist and librarian who assisted with this article, began as a research assistant.
The workhas many aims, but a core aim isto document the effects of climate change and to make the findings as widely accessible as possible. The website features a tool called Explorer, which enables users to peruse the collection using an interactive map thatspans Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon. A map is populated by clickable “stations,” which are the sites of the
photographic pairs in the collection. Browsing through the stations, users will find stark visual contrasts between the historical mountain photographs and their contemporary counterparts.
Recently, the field team had the opportunity to re-photograph the Athabasca Glacier, located at Station 40. A photograph by R.C. McDonald in 1938, more than 85 years ago, clearly demonstrates the marked change. Ten years ago, Bill Graveland wrote an article titled “Athabasca glacier melting at ‘astonishing’ rate of more than five metres a year,” which posited that the glacier may disappear completely within a generation. This visual comparison provides alarming evidence of the rapid recession.
Looking forward, members of the Mountain Legacy Project, currently based at the University of Victoria, are working to rephotograph early twentieth-century images ofJasper National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park through partnership with the Stoney Nakoda First Nation.Mountain Legacy Project also works in close partnership with Library Archives Canada to digitize and care for the collection.The Mountain Legacy Project, founded in 1998, continues to grow and build on its body of work, creating visual comparisons both powerful and alarming that serve as a call to action for the viewer.
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Athabasca Glacier LEFT: R.C. McDonald, 1938, Stn. 40, 31 E, The Mountain Legacy Project & Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. RIGHT: Mountain Legacy Project Field Team, Stn. 40, July 9th, 2024.
BEACH BLISS
BILLED AS THE WORLD’S GREATEST PHOTO GAME, GuruShots is an international competition platform for photographers. Players get feedback from more than three billion monthly voters and try to work their way up through rankings, from Newbie to the ultimate status (and bragging rights) of Guru.
GuruShots’ challenges are voted on by the platform’s Gurus and the wider community, with a fresh challenge every day. Winners can receive prizes from GuruShots’ sponsors such as Adorama, Kodak, Lowepro, and Lensbaby.
The Beach Bliss Challenge showcases a wave of wonderful interpretations on this theme from around the world.
9. Mario Congreve • United States 10. Andrei Tomas • Romania
Guy Wilson • Israel
Ramona Webel • Germany
Roy Egloff • Switzerland
Rózsa Balázs • Romania
Ryszard Tutko • Poland
Sebastian Marius Popescu • Romania 17. Shervin Yektaparast • Canada 18. Violetta Wieczorek Kuchciak • United States 19. Wlodzimierz Olejniczak • Poland
20. Xan White • Switzerland
DAPHNE FAYE BOXILL
Toronto, ON
WE ALL LIVE TOGETHER
“My art is a reflection of the intersectionality of my identity, influenced by my Caribbean heritage and upbringing in New Brunswick. With my camera, I explore themes of intergenerational racist trauma and the impact that has had on my body. For me, self-portraiture is a portal to self-discovery, a celebration of my roots, and an assertion of my presence.”
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We often can’t define the concept of time. Words can’t encapsulate something so boundless. They can’t pinpoint something so fleeting. It’s a futile endeavor… … like trying to explain how these flowers I have for you are still blooming after what they’ve endured. … like trying to decide when was the RIGHT time to give them to you. These flowers have no nectar. They cannot be used for decoration. These flowers are not for celebration, nor are they symbolic of my grief… My mourning. These flowers represent all hearts… unbounded and eternal. So, you see There was no RIGHT time to give them to you. And I know... As long as I have these flowers, I have you. *Dedicated to a loved one lost*
Brampton, ON
MAKUMBI
“This series was created in memory of a truly loved one. The word 'Makumbi' represents cloudsheavy, dark clouds on the verge of saturation. At any moment now, the clouds will burst into a storm of the century - akin to a tragedy, washing away all that we are holding onto tightly.”
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Poem: Kahame Msiska and Brian Aether
Sudbury, ON NO TIME LIKE THE....
“An installation dealing with time and nostalgia that I leave behind once photographed to fade away and decay due to weather and time.”
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NICO GLAUDE
ARIELLE CHUNG
Waterloo, ON
A RELIC OF THE PAST
“This is a story about people, the past, and the present.
My Nainai (grandma) went from growing up in rural China under a devastating famine, to being amongst the most hated people in the country, caring for her two daughters whilst working full time all by herself. She consistently made sacrifices, pushing aside even the thought of having personal passions in order to do the necessary things to support others. She’s seen the worst side of humanity, when the Cultural Revolution punished the educated, while devotedly still managing to give so much of herself to others.
My Yeye's (grandpa) life contained a prestigious childhood, a fall from grace, standing face-to-face with death on multiple occasions, and living through the desert’s most bleak conditions. He is by all means a survivor - able to push through the toughest of environments and live on to tell stories you couldn’t even imagine.
These photographs unveil the link between their past and its modern remnants. It visualizes the constant dance between our history and our “now,” two drastically different worlds colliding to create people who embody such an interesting dichotomy.”
During the Cultural Revolution,
house raids were extremely common. the social order flipped and manual took power, they began to storm the labeled “Intellects,” bringing with them destruction and death. It’s a fear that my Nainai for decades after, inciting to race at the knock of the door - only years later and in a whole new country, she feel a little more at ease.
A family picture of my Nainai and her siblings, the very ones she ran away to raise all on her own as a teenager. This dainty picture is one of the only tangible relics left from her youth, held now in a softer, wrinkled palm.
NAINAI
unprompted
unprompted common. When laborers the houses of them that haunted inciting her pulse only now, 50 country, does
For many years, my Yeye has made these buns each week. He chops up leftover raisins and nuts and stuffs them inside, then pan fries them on a skillet. Even at 80, he’s selfsufficient and moves like clockwork, sustaining these
habits he’s carried on for years.
To preserve his story my mom had my Yeye write out the story of his life. 54 pages, double sided, no spaces. Here, he sits surrounded by the pages filled with tales from his life.
YEYE
Thorold, ON
CONNECTING RODS
“Connecting Rods is a case study of the demise of the manufacturing industry in my home region of Niagara, Ontario, focusing on the former General Motors factory in the City of St. Catharines where my father and maternal grandfather both worked. GM was once a major employer in Niagara - at its peak they employed 9,700 people in a region of approximately 369k, with over 60k additional jobs in the region linked to the auto industry. GM Ontario Street closed in 2010.
As of 2024 the factory still exists in a half- demolished state, a stasis it has been in since 2015. One an economic powerhouse for the region, the site is now a point of contention in local politics, with the shadow of its demise something that the city seemingly cannot shake.”
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JULIANNA D'INTINO
Toronto, ON
A GAZER IN QUARANTINE
“A selection from a series of 50 images taken while in quarantine. Each pairs something I was gazing at, with me in my surroundings. Laid off from work, locked down at home, nowhere to go, no one to meet, just me in my studio. Time passed slowly, yet every day I discovered new relationship with my surroundings which helped me to stay hopeful.”
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ELSA HASHEMI
LUCY LU
Toronto, ON
AFTER YEYE
“All my life, my grandparents’ home in Xi'an, China, has been a place that felt impervious to time. But since my yeye's passing in 2021, it is now a stark reminder of times inevitable flow, of presence, absence, and a memory-shaping place.” lucylu.ca
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FARAH AL AMIN
Toronto, ON
DECAY
“The entanglement of life with death, to preserve a moment when one life form blossoms while another fades, when the ordinary is taken over by the strange and otherworldly.”
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“Family
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JAMES R. PAGE
Val Marie, SK
ABANDONED PONTIAC
“The 1939 Pontiac - abandoned in a prairie field - has been among my favourite photo subjects for the past 15 years. Over time, windblown grit, hail, rain, snow, ice, and searing heat have done their work reshaping the old relic into something unexpected - and uniquely beautiful.”
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XIATONG CAI
Ottawa, ON AFTER
RETIREMENT
“This project examines the deep loss felt by retirees who have to leave careers that shaped their identities. It highlights their lasting creativity and value gained through their life, advocating for smoother transitions rather than forced retirements in the workforce.”
IG: @xiatongc
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MICAH KLEIN
Newmarket, ON
RECLAIMED BY NATURE
“These vehicles were abandoned in the woods, and nature has done its work reclaiming them.”
“This series contemplates time through the expiry dates of food, the ephemeral nature of digital image consumption, and the lost process of traditional darkroom photography. “
IG: @f_a_u_s_t_a bulgergallery.com
MARIANA TOPFSTEDT
Ottawa, ON
UPSIDE DOWN
“These self-portraits were created by transforming my room into a camera obscura. This magical technique allows us to perceive time differently than we do today. Modern devices bring immediacy and distraction, distancing us from the divine discovery of our true selves.”
IG: @topfstedtmariana
Vancouver, BC
LANDSCAPES OF DYNAMISM
“Landscapes of Dynamism’ is a series of durational photographs that invert the tradition of the long exposure where only the changes over time are visible. I use a unique method where each image is composed from thousands of individual photographs captured over hours to months.”
B. BOGART
Richmond Hill, ON
ECHOES
“Echoes delves into the fluidity of our perception of time and its evolution within the environments we inhabit. It often contrasts in feeling both infinite and fleeting. The visual motifs connect the ethereal with the earthly, illustrating our journey through different layers of time.”
IG: @uncharasmatic charaho.com
CHARA HO
HAFSA MURTAZA
Brampton, ON
AMBIVALENCE OF MIMICRY
“My long-exposure self-portrait series explores the interconnections between Eastern and Western cultures. I assume the role of a colonially fabricated character, Anarkali, and freeze time in a double portrait photograph that neither represents reality nor is entirely fiction.”
IG: @hafsa_m49
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Montreal, QC
ECHOES OF MY MIND
“This series illustrates the warped reality born when ones dreams and memories blend with the images their eyes capture. The past and present colliding create ones own reality that is for them only to be perceived.”
IG: @benx.photo.corner
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CATHERINE BELSHAW
Toronto, ON
WAITING AREAS
“Arranged as places of rest in locations of significance determined by community -- a plantation, a bus stop, an alley, a cemetery -- formations of chairs reminiscent of a waiting room appear in multiple countries around the world but absent of the people who shaped them.”
IG: @catbelshaw
GREGORY A MCCULLOUGH
Ridgeway, ON
RED PROJECTIONS
“Drawing with a red laser explores the bleed between two art mediums: drawing & photography. It is grounded in time: the time lapse of the photo documentation and juxtaposes the ephemerality of light with the stasis of the photographic medium.”
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Oakville, ON
LIGHT YEARS
“These photographs illustrate of the sun's light changes draw people's attention would usually overlook and in infrared because the full range of light tones.”
IG:@jeetkumarlandscapes
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JEET KUMAR
illustrate how the direction and the intensity changes over the course of a year. My aim is to to scenes of light and shadow that they or disregard. I photograph in monochrome I feel this is the only way I can do justice to tones.”
IG:@jeetkumarlandscapes @jeetkumarastrophotos
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Toronto, ON
TIME - DEFINES OUR EXISTENCE
“The many aspects of time are woven into our lives and our universe. Time touches us all in many intriguing ways.”
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GARETH JONES
WAYNEFISHER
Thornhill, ON IT’S ALL WE HAVE
“Time is all we have. Eternal Clockwork. I love images that capture the intricate gears of an old clock, highlighting the beauty of timepieces.”
IG: @waynefisherphotography fisherphotoinc.ca
NIKKI MIDDLEMISS
Montréal, QC INNERLINE
“The line that emerges when fabric is unwoven is the result of a painstaking act that is both destructive and transformative. The Innerline images have time embedded within them, and they seek to question concepts around its productive use.”
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ATIA POKORNY
Toronto, ON
TIME CANNOT ERASE IT ALL
“Cyanotypes from old glass negatives circa 1911. Symbolically, the images include a timeline of four women. In two images, the mother wears a black dress to mourn her own mother who has just died. I, the daughter of the squirming baby, imprint my own time.”
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JUDY H. MCPHEE
Salt Spring Island, BC
BARN WITH SUN FLARES
“This photo was taken in an old abandoned barn with a 13 second exposure time using a Nikon D7000, 250mm focal length, F/11, Manual exposure. I waited for the right moment to capture the sun light rays come through the boards of the barn to create this long exposure image.”
IG:@jhmcpheephotography
mcpheestudiogallery.net
WALTER RAEMISCH
London, ON
TIME IS AN ILLUSION
“A juxtaposition of time and place. Upside down vs right side up, sunset vs sunrise. All in a clock faced, circular motion of time as a constant illusion of change.”
IG: @everydayrae everydayrae.art
Vancouver, BC
PIXELS IN MOTION: CAPTURING THE FLOW OF LIFE
“Slowing time to capturing the essence of our kaleidoscopic surroundings. The image reveals hidden beauty within the blur, uncovering profound gestures lost in our screen-obsessed fast paced lives. Immerse in fleeting moments, a tapestry of colors & emotions unfold.”
IG: @nikkibaxendaleart nikkibaxendale.com
NIKKI BAXENDALE
(THU) MIA HO
New Brunswick
50 YEARS OF BLISS
“The time span between the two photos is 50 years. Time is like a vast container that has well kept all the living moments of my parents, both ups and downs. This is my special gift to their celebration of living happily together in the here and now.”
IG: @thuho_visualartist thuhomia.ca
Cambridge, ON
CURRENTS
“This series explores the relationship between the passage of seconds, memory, and the elements. Wind shapes the light in this series of slow-shutter nature images: softening the literal, tempering the truth, blending - to various degrees - the concrete with the abstract.”
IG:@vanessa.pejovic vanessapejovic.ca
VANESSA PEJOVIC
CORDEIRO
Edmonton, AB
TIME
“A photograph, just a snapshot in time. A moment captured that can convey an entire message or story.”
IG: @samesky_streetart jerry-cordeiro.pixels.com
JERRY
LAURA WILLEMS
Newtonville, ON
FROZEN IN TIME
“Frost sits on a garden sundial. It is very brittle and only exists for a very brief moment of time. It is the early morning right before the sun warms up the air and causes the stir of the wind. This time...I see it... before these delicate, frozen crystals collapse.”
JILL FINNEY
Toronto, ON
TIME
“My photography is a practice of noticing as a way of living in the world. The process of creating expressive imagery is rooted in curiosity and self reflection. Exploring themes of impermanence and connection is central to my work.”
IG: @jillfinney jillfinney.com
KATA ENDRODI
Montreal, QC
ETERNAL CYCLES
“A hexagon-shaped carton with six sections each holding a duck egg with a clock dial in the middle, symbolizes the passage of time and the cycles of life. This image invites viewers to reflect on the nature of time.” kataendrodiphotography.com
Toronto, ON
PASSAGE/PARTING
“Passage/Parting reflects on the transitory state of existence and the inability to truly communicate the experiences of the self to another. Questioning the linearity of time as an experience in solus, I explore existentialism in the passage of time and it coming to a standstill.”
IG: @everyone_ freidawang.com
FREIDA WANG
BRENDAN JAMES LACY
Kitchener, ON
STILL STANDING
“In 2018 I studied abroad in Italy with an Architecture program. We learned the histories of buildings and cities. This series is about the life that these buildings still have, hundreds or thousands of years later, as important parts of the public’s day-to-day experiences.”
brendanlacy.com
Newcastle, ON
TIME TRAVEL DOPPELGÄNGER
“At a Montreal metro station where a passenger had an uncanny resemblance to a vintage-poster character.”
IG: @jmcormier101 jmcormier.picfair.com
JEAN-MAURICE CORMIER
Toronto, ON
HERE I GO AGAIN
“Investigating the moment that a photograph is taken, utilizing tools of photography, reflecting onto itself.”
TAMMY LAM
HOW Surrey, BC
TIME - THE FOURTH DIMENSION
“Carlo Rovelli posed that Time is an Illusion. Einstein introduced the concept of Time as the Fourth Dimension. This means that the Universe and Time are inextricably linked. If the soul is a seed of the universe; then the best measure of Time is the reality of Life and Death.” IG: @carol_how
CAROL
“The Forest work celebrates the seasons of the year in a forest as they pass through time as a liminal state, which is continually becoming, and ending. We experience the passage of the seasons as a transformation in time and physical space.”
IG: @khchilds hesschilds.com
IAN BRUNT
Waterloo, ON TIME
“These bartenders had electric energy and loved what they were doing. My goal was to relay their intensity and movement as it unfolded in front of me over time. Work time .... good times ... lifetime. Cheers.”
IG: @eyejaybe
E MCDONOUGH
Toronto, ON
THE PAST IS JUST A FACADE
“Historical buildings are being ‘preserved’ by attaching girders to support facade, then tearing down the rest and building condos behind. Is this a metaphor for who we are? Just selected memories of our past that we hold onto?”
IG: @edphoto123
MARC DANIEL DELLEDONNE
St Catharines, ON
NIAGARA IS ERODING
“The erosion of the shoreline in Niagara has sped up due to climate change and the loss of important natural flora which once protected it. Time is not on our side, and we need to act to help protect our shores.”
IG: @iammarcsphotos
marcdanielphoto.com
Toronto, THE ILLUSION
“This experiment in street photography mental illness that distorted my perception and physicists exploring the nature of time, capture changes in both
RICK MILLER
MILLER
Toronto, ON
ILLUSION OF TIME
photography was created while I was living with a perception of time. Inspired by philosophers time, I exploited a smartphone glitch to duration and location.”
Ottawa, ON
SLITSCAN ROTATIONS - ANONYMOUS TIME
“I have been building my own digital slitscan cameras for +20years. In this project a experimental slit-scan cameras was used that rotates the 1*7926 sensor about the center of lens. The camera was suspended above the models & clock.”
IG: @ralphnev ralph.ca
RALPH NEVINS
LEAH OATES
Toronto, ON
TRANSITORY SPACE
“The Transitory Space series deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions and a continual human imprint. In everyone and everything there are daily changes. This work articulates fluctuation in the photographic image and captures movement through time and space.”
MELISSA EDEN
Kitchener, ON
PROJECT: ISOLATED COLLECTIONS
“Fictional perspectives from pandemic times, when the world showed us we could change on a global scale in a matter of months.”
IG: @ahumanliveshere dieuna.com
M REID
Toronto, ON
TIME WARP
“In 2004, I had the privilege of documenting the Lunenburg Foundry, an experience that felt like stepping back in time to the early 19th century.”
DALE
BOB ST-CYR
Abbotsford, BC
FREEZE FRAMES IN TIME
“One of the things I like about photography is the ability to illustrate a fraction of a moment on one hand and then being able to show the passage of time within the human experience on the other.”
IG: @foto.bob
Lee Miller, Pidoux Hats [with original markings, Vogue Studio, London, England], 1939, chromogenic print (printed 2023)
