Starting today, we are delighted to present the FFOTO Gift Registry Program, a new way for collectors to acquire quality historical photographs and contemporary photo-based artworks. 

Developed in conjunction with Stephen Bulger Gallery, FFOTO’s founding partner, the FFOTO Gift Registry Program offers a convenient way to commemorate life’s milestones - a wedding, a birth, a graduation, a new home, or perhaps a retirement. Your selection of a fine art photograph will be a nostalgic reminder of the occasion for years to come. 

John Hryniuk is FFOTO's latest addition to our roster of exclusive artists. John began making photographs as an adolescent, going on to build a successful career as a commercial photographer and photojournalist. While taking on editorial assignments, he also pursued a parallel fine art practice. 

John concentrates on making photographs that tell human stories in relatable ways. His observations of the absurdities of everyday situations suggest the fullness of his human subjects' lives - the wry smile of Anthony Bourdain, the playfulness of the Covid portraits, mischievous monks, cowboys, and street vendors.

To introduce collectors to these photographs, we asked John to tell us a bit about his background, his art practice, and stories behind some of his compositions. 

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.