I went to TPW's Photorama for my first time and I can't say enough good things about it. First, on the non-art side of things, Union catered it (hello Elk Sliders!). On those more relevant things, the exhibition was a well-curated and really interesting selection of local, old and new guard. Brent and I argued over what we liked best, but in the end took home Danielle Greer's fluffy pink explosion with matching flowers (above), one of Edward Burtynsky's (BP) Oil Spill photographs, and a photograph of a cat blanketed in a variety of plush furs (we haven't picked it up yet and can't find an image online- will post later). My only regret was that we didn't pick up Alex Kisilevich's matronly cousin-it. The image is really on trend with young photographers who are revisiting traditional portraiture, but abandoning the portrait. The absence of the face, be it through obscuring, masking or erasing it altogether, disembodies the subject making it appear almost empty, less real. More on this later (ie: Robyn Cumming and Derek Liddington).
I went to TPW's Photorama for my first time and I can't say enough good things about it. First, on the non-art side of things, Union catered it (hello Elk Sliders!). On those more relevant things, the exhibition was a well-curated and really interesting selection of local, old and new guard. Brent and I argued over what we liked best, but in the end took home Danielle Greer's fluffy pink explosion with matching flowers (above), one of Edward Burtynsky's (BP) Oil Spill photographs, and a photograph of a cat blanketed in a variety of plush furs (we haven't picked it up yet and can't find an image online- will post later). My only regret was that we didn't pick up Alex Kisilevich's matronly cousin-it. The image is really on trend with young photographers who are revisiting traditional portraiture, but abandoning the portrait. The absence of the face, be it through obscuring, masking or erasing it altogether, disembodies the subject making it appear almost empty, less real. More on this later (ie: Robyn Cumming and Derek Liddington).
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