EXPOSURE FESTIVAL

Until July 18, 2021

The annual Exposure Photography Festival presents exhibitions that showcase photographic work by internationally renowned practitioners, alongside emerging and established talent from Alberta. Last year the festival received over 850,000 visits to its exhibitions. The festival provides an exciting, innovative meeting place for photographers and art lovers to connect with one another, along with curators and photography professionals from around the world. The festival brings together people of all ages to celebrate Alberta’s rich photography scene and thriving creative communities. 

Exposure celebrates the arrival of 2021 with the seventeenth edition of our annual festival of photography. This year brings a festival like no other! The challenges presented by COVID-19 have required us to approach #17 with energy, inventiveness, and resilience. We have produced a hybrid festival that brings together physical indoor exhibition spaces with outdoor public exhibitions and online experiences for you to enjoy. — Dona Schwartz, President and Board Chair of Exposure Photography Festival.

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EXPOSURE INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL EXHIBITION

Juried by MaryAnn Camilleri, Director of The Magenta Foundation, the International Open Call exhibition features the work of photographers and visual artists based around the world who incorporate, celebrate or challenge the photographic medium within their practices. The exhibition shows a broad range of works, including photojournalism and photocollage, abstract and politically engaged photography, and works that embrace social and individual experience, as well as visual explorations of identity and personal narratives.

Hear more about the work included in the exhibition via the Exposure In Conversation Series that invited the Exposure 2021 International Open Call exhibiting artists to speak with Beth Kane, Exposure’s Coordinator.

Exhibiting artists are Jooeun Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) Jason DeMarte (Saline, MI, USA), Sean Du (Pasadena, CA, USA), Antonio Faccilongo (Rome, Italy), Eric Fong (London, UK), Rachael McArthur (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Ella Morton (Toronto, ON), Kriss Munsya (Burnaby, BC), Rachel Nixon (Vancouver, BC), Michelle Piergoelam (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Leah Schretenthaler (Milwaukee, WI, USA), Mirja Maria Thiel (Schwanewede, Germany), Clare Thomas (Victoria, BC), Sandra Chen Weinstein (Lake Forest, CA, USA) and Ingrid Weyland (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

EXPOSURE EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE

Juried by Ryan Doherty, Chief Curator of Contemporary Calgary, the Emerging Photographers Showcase presents the work of fourteen photographers and visual artists based in Treaties 6,7 and 8 Territories in Alberta. The exhibition celebrates the rich talent of early-career practitioners who are based in the province. 

Exhibiting artists are Jessie Altura, Mecoh Bain, Jade Bartlett, Angela Boehm, Sam Doty, Michelle Gilbert, Ron Hallam, Visti KJar, Barb Kreutter, Liam Mackenzie, Jason Nessler, Emma Palm, Louie Villanueva and Joel Matthew Warkentin. 

EXPOSURE 2020 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: COLLEEN RAUSCHER

Colleen Rauscher, is the recipient of the 2020 Emerging Photographer of the Year Award selected by Joanne Marion, Director/Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre. 

“My work focuses on structure and pattern and incorporates the element of chance. I work to capture a unique and unfamiliar perspective on the world around me. Through experimentation and instinct, I coax objects and patterns to emerge from the intersection and overlap of lines and light. I seek to shift perceptions about objects, images or materials in an unexpected way in order to challenge the viewer.   

I collage images, memories and fragments inside the camera, directly onto the physical film. I consistently shoot two exposures on the same frame of film, in the same location, often from different angles and orientations. The resulting double exposures represent fleeting memories that overlap and tangle, elusive images of the past and dreamlike recollections. Perceptions of place and time are altered, fluid, and inconsistent, just like our own memories of past events and places, and how we think we remember things. I leave the viewer with a suggestion of isolation, of atmospheric and ambiguous surroundings denying the initial impulse to ‘read’ the image.” – Colleen Rauscher

Colleen Rauscher is a Calgary-based collage/mixed media artist. She holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and has participated in local, national and international exhibitions with her mixed media artworks.  

Hear more about the work included in the exhibition via the Exposure In Conversation Series that invited Colleen Rauscher to speak with Beth Kane, Exposure’s Coordinator.

Exposure would t to thank our exhibition partner Contemporary Calgary and our official print partner ABL Imaging for their support of the 2021 edition of the Exposure Photography Festival curated exhibitions.