BEYOND THE PHYSICAL SURFACE Irina Urumova: “My photographic work is an exploration of urban existence, marked by impermanence and transience; it is a journey beyond the physical surface and into the dreamier and darker aspects of a mind shaped by living in a city. Following the approach of aleatoric art, my photography is premised on […]
A BODY GRIMED, DISGUISED, TRANSFORMED… Isabelle Féebrile: “Selfportraits are for me, a support, a language, where my body is like the blank page of a diary. This body grimed, disguised, this naked body, transformed but who remains me, give me the chance to tell stories, wounds, dreams that I couldn’t express with words. Each my […]
MULTIPLE PARALLEL UNIVERSES Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Christopher Tamas Kovacs is an award winning photographer best known for his multiple exposure black-and-white photography. He is fascinated with science, particularly with quantum mechanics and the possibility of a multiverse, or multiple, parallel universes, which also sets the stage for his style of photographic works. He […]
A MONOCHROMATIC AGE Fred Fraser is a Vancouver-based self-taught photographer and dedicated people-shooter. Two decades into his profession, Fraser took his work old school when he began to experiment with wet plate portrait photography, a technique dating from the 1850s and employing gear older than your grandparents. Its process is arduous, perilous, and unforgiving, and […]
A WET PLATE COLLODION PHOTOGRAPHER After hitchhiking all over the world, goat herding in the Anatolian mountains and dabbling in jazz music, Czech artist Tomas Hetmanek turned to large-format photography. He uses a 19th-century technique called wet plate collodion to create striking contemporary portraits. This solo exhibition at Halka Sanat draws out the inherent dreaminess […]
THE CAPTURED LIGHT Iliyana Gonzalés-ilie: “The light! It is what helps us, to see in the dark. It is what brings sparkles in our souls, when dark and heavy days squeeze us to pain! The Light, which is painting hope and love in our dreams and with which I am painting so many years. That […]
