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Robert Giard: Iconic Portraits

08 Jun, 2021

Robert Giard: Iconic Portraits

Robert Giard (1939 - 2002) was a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer best known for his project Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers. In 1985, inspired by a performance of Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart,” which focused on the AIDS crisis in New York, Giard set about documenting a wide survey of significant gay and lesbian literary figures in straightforward, but sometimes witty and playful portraits. For the next two decades Giard photographed over 600 famous and emerging LGBTQ+ novelists, playwrights, poets, and performance artists.
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Artist Spotlight: François Quévillon

03 May, 2021

Artist Spotlight: François Quévillon

The interdisciplinary art practice of François Quévillon investigates how technology affects or redefines human cognition, culture, the environment, and our relationships to space, to time, and to one another. His work addresses planetary changes as well as those affecting contemporary media. 

Often what the viewer sees in Quévillon's compositions seems uncanny or alien -- yet somehow still recognizable as being part of "our world". These machine-rendered 'ways of seeing' reflect our environment and experiences back to us while reminding us that our familiar, human-centred construct of time and space is but one way of processing reality. 

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Artist Spotlight: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

03 Sep, 2020

Artist Spotlight: Marie-Jeanne Musiol

Marie-Jeanne Musiol is a photographer whose fascination with "energy botany" is expressed through her art practice. In this interview, FFOTO's Cassie Spires talks to Musiol about the interests that inform her creative process. What follows is an illuminating conversation with an artist whose open-minded sensibilities accommodate both hard science and metaphysical approaches within her worldview.
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In Conversation: Sabrina Ratté & Deanna Pizzitelli

03 Jul, 2020

In Conversation: Sabrina Ratté & Deanna Pizzitelli

We were lucky to be able to have a virtual sit-down with Deanna and Sabrina, to discuss what seem to be apparent overlapping themes and ideas in their work. We hoped to gain a sense of how each artist approaches their work and see to what extent process overlaps. The result was a fascinating conversation that touched on how to represent subjectivities, the use of manipulation of media as a technique to alter ‘reality,’ questions of memory and place, and more.
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Artist Spotlight: Rita Leistner

30 Jun, 2020

Artist Spotlight: Rita Leistner

Like many of us, multidisciplinary artist Rita Leistner has plenty to keep her busy during the Covid-19 lockdown. Recently, York University Prof. Katherine Knight invited Leistner to speak to students enrolled in her visual arts course, VISA 1006: The Photographic Experience. In this short video, Leistner discusses being an 'engaged photographer' and her upcoming project, Forest for the Trees, a film and catalogue chronicling her two series The Tree Planters and The Tree Planters - Enchanted Forest
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Artist Spotlight: Barbara Alper

15 Jun, 2020

Artist Spotlight: Barbara Alper

A freelance photojournalist with a career spanning 40+ years, Barbara Alper's eye focuses on landmark moments of social change, as well as intimate observations of everyday life. Evident across Alper's body of work is her desire to show viewers scenes of solidarity -- both on a grand scale as well as face-to-face on the streets where we live. It is this humanistic sensibility that drew the attention of the New York Times, leading to Alper's longtime association with the USA's newspaper of record.
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