February 2 – March 3, 2024
The Exposure Photography Festival is pleased to announce its twentieth-anniversary programme happening in Alberta in February. Exposure 2024 promises to be an expansive and exciting festival edition with exhibitions presented in galleries, museums, local businesses and outdoor locations in Calgary, Banff, Canmore, Crowsnest Pass, Edmonton, Peace River & Red Deer. This year’s exhibition programme shares a wide range of narratives, subjects, practices, and explorations of the photographic medium drawing attention to Calgary and Alberta as the site of an active, growing, creative community in the field of photography.
Exposure’s curated exhibitions, the International Open Call and Emerging Photographers Showcase, will be hosted at Contemporary Calgary (February 2 – March 3), a significant visual arts destination dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The exhibitions present a broad range of works, including photocollage, conceptual photography, politically engaged practices and works that embrace social and individual experience, as well as visual explorations of identity and personal narratives.
The Exposure 2024 International Open Call exhibition will feature the work of photographers and visual artists based around the world who incorporate, celebrate, or challenge the photographic medium within their practices. Selected by the Exposure Team and Lillian O'Brien Davis, curator and writer based in Toronto, the exhibition will present the works of contemporary practitioners based in Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, Morocco, Slovakia, United Kingdom, and United States.
The Exposure 2024 Emerging Photographers Showcase celebrates the rich talent of early-career practitioners who are based in the province. Selected by the Exposure Team and Janine Windolph (Atikamekw/Woodland Cree), Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre Arts and Creativity, the exhibition provides an insight into our dynamic and growing community of fine art photographers here in the region.
The Exposure 2023 Emerging Photographer of the Year award exhibition will also be hosted at Contemporary Calgary (February 2 – March 3). This prestigious award provides an Alberta-based emerging artist with a platform to show their work while furthering their professional practice. Exposure’s Festival Manager, Bethany Kane, mentors and supports the artist in developing their vision in the best possible way. Selected by Tiffany Jones, Publisher of Overlapse, the award recipient Elyse Longair will be presenting a solo collage exhibition during the 2024 festival.
For the seventh consecutive year, Exposure has brought the Flash Forward Incubator Program to Alberta, in partnership with the Toronto-based The Magenta Foundation. The Flash Forward Incubator Program exhibition will feature the work of students from the 2023/24 participating schools: Westmount Charter School in Calgary and Eastglen School in Edmonton.
Exposure Fence: People & Place, is an outdoor exhibition at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza, presented in partnership with the Chinook Blast Festival. Curated by Beth Kane, People & Place presents the work of visual artists based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories, also known as Southern Alberta. The work and perspectives of this dynamic group of exhibiting artists provide us with both celebratory and critical visual insights regarding the complex, intertwined relationships between people and place within these traditional territories. In addition to activating public space in Calgary’s downtown core, the exhibition promotes wider understandings and increased access to the art of photography and visual storytelling, amplifying impactful narratives and connecting artists to a wide audience.
EXPOSURE 2024 INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL
The Exposure 2024 International Open Call exhibition features the work of photographers and visual artists based around the world who incorporate, celebrate, and/or challenge the photographic medium within their practices. The Exhibiting Artists have been selected by the Exposure Team and juror Lillian O'Brien Davis, curator and writer based in Toronto.
Exhibiting Artists are Justin Carney (USA), Pippa Healy (UK), M'hammed Kilito (Morocco), Patricia Krivanek (Ethiopia), Kristiina Lahde (Canada), Christina Leslie (Canada), Gui Marcondes (Brazil), Lisa McCarty (USA), Martin Miklas (Slovakia), Rachel Nixon (Canada), Christine Osinski (USA), Molly Steels (Canada), Han Sungpil (South Korea / Canada), Teiji Wallace-Lewis (Canada) & Tom Woodroffe (UK).
For more information on our exhibiting artists please see Exposure Festival’s website.
EXPOSURE 2024 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE
The Exposure 2024 Emerging Photographers Showcase exhibition presents the work of fifteen 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 while providing an insight into our dynamic and growing community of fine art photographers here in Alberta. The Exhibiting Artists have been selected by the Exposure Team and juror Janine Windolph (Atikamekw/Woodland Cree), Director of Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre Arts and Creativity.
Exhibiting Artists are Masoud Alipourian, Scott Christensen, Brady Fullerton, Nozomi Kamei, Taraneh Khodai, Santosh Kumar Korthiwada, Ramsey Kunkel, Kim Payne, Amir Salehi, Stasia Schmidt, Maksim Tataev, Shane Thompson, Tiffany Thomson, Christina Yao & Wynn Yunn.
For more information on our exhibiting artists please see Exposure Festival’s website.
EXPOSURE 2023 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR:
ELYSE LONGAIR, PICTURING THE INFRATHIN
Exposure’s 2023 Emerging Photographer of the Year award recipient Elyse Longair will be presenting her solo show Picturing The Infrathin.
Marcel Duchamp suggests that the immeasurable gap, “the possible implying becoming — the passage from one to the other takes place in the infrathin”. Elyse Longair’s exhibition, Picturing the Infrathin, evokes Duchamp’s concept of the infrathin through collage with a specific focus on her flat seamless aesthetic where the thin space or gap between image fragments approaches (in)visibility. Each collage is created similarly: embracing subtly and carefully composed using a limited number of image fragments from her archive of popular knowledge source material, predominantly National Geographic magazine images from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Her work is durational, as Longair may wait years to find a near seamless and logical image match. In this infrathin space she creates, the viewer can imagine freely the possibility of the image, and the roles of picture making and imagination.
EXPOSURE FENCE: PEOPLE & PLACE
The Exposure Photography Festival presents EXPOSURE FENCE: PEOPLE & PLACE at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza, in partnership with Chinook Blast! Festival.
Curated by Beth Kane, People & Place presents the work of four visual artists based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories, also known as Southern Alberta. The work and perspectives of this dynamic group of exhibiting artists provide us with both celebratory and critical visual insights regarding the complex, intertwined relationships between People & Place within these traditional territories.
Exposure’s free outdoor exhibition activates an accessible public space, enabling new opportunities for increased engagement with the art of photography and visual storytelling. Working with our exhibition partners, we amplify impactful visual narratives, offer novel insights, and connect artists to diverse audiences.
Location: Olympic Plaza (outdoors)
Open: 24/7 from February 2-19
Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition is child-friendly.
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