February 6—March 6, 2025
Join us for the opening of Exposure Photography Festival on February 6 from 5-9 PM.
The Exposure Photography Festival is a month-long celebration of photography across Alberta. They highlight exceptional contemporary work, create opportunities for emerging artists, and invite the public to engage with a wide variety of visual storytelling through juried open-call exhibitions and a diverse array of partner programming.
Since 2020, Contemporary Calgary has hosted Exposure’s open-call exhibitions: International Open Call and Emerging Photographers Showcase, as well as a solo exhibition featuring the previous festival’s Emerging Photographer of the Year. This year, Contemporary Calgary will also be hosting an additional exhibition as part of Exposure: Vivek Shraya: Niche.
Admission to the Exposure exhibitions is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours.
Click here to visit the Exposure Photography Festival website.
Featured Image by Eliot Nasrallah
EXPOSURE 2025 INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL
The following artists have been selected by our juror, Liz Ikiriko, to exhibit work in the International Open Call Exhibition, opening February 6 at Contemporary Calgary:
Kaya & Blank (USA) | Anton Bou (Canada) | Madeleine Brunnmeier (Germany) | Diana Cheren Nygren (USA) | Hyojae Chung (Canada) | Andy Mattern (USA) | Louie Morales (USA) | Eliot Nasrallah (France) | Adetona Omokanye (Canada) | Alina Saranti (USA) | Martha Tadesse (USA) | Kelly Tsai (USA) | George Webber (Canada)
Location: Contemporary Calgary Grotto
Featured Image by Lana Collins
EXPOSURE 2025 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOWCASE
The following artists have been selected by our juror, Naomi Potter, to exhibit work in the Emerging Photographers Showcase Exhibition, opening February 6 at Contemporary Calgary:
Saeed Abdollahi (Calgary, AB) | Masoud Alipourian (Calgary, AB) | Kathryn Audet (Calgary, AB) | Rosemary Burd (Vancouver, BC) | Lana Collins (Calgary, AB) | Brady Fullerton (Calgary, AB) | Cat Hart (Vancouver, BC) | Alexis McKeown (Canmore, AB) | Mitra Samavaki (Calgary, AB) | Morgan Sears-Williams (Vancouver, BC) | Tiffany Thomson (Calgary, AB) | Autumn Whiteway (Calgary, AB) | Nic Wilson (Regina, SK)
Location: Contemporary Calgary Grotto
Featured Image by Stasia Schmidt
EXPOSURE 2024 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR:
Stasia Schmidt: Ephemerality
Exposure’s 2024 Emerging Photographer of the Year award recipient Stasia Schmidt will present her solo show Ephemerality. Opening February 6 at Contemporary Calgary.
Location: Contemporary Calgary Grotto
Featured Image by Vivek Sharya
Vivek Shraya: Niche
Presented as part of the Exposure Photography Festival
A niche is defined as a cavity, hollow, or recess in a wall. When a work of art is classified as “niche,” the “wall” or the environment in which the art was produced, recedes from view. This photo series brings the wall back into the foreground.
Opening February 6 at Contemporary Calgary.
Location: Contemporary Calgary Bow View Hall
About the artist:
Vivek Shraya (she/her) is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, TV, film, and fashion. A three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, Vivek is the creator and writer of the new CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar, which had its international premiere at Cannes. She was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize and has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden, Peaches, and Jully Black. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene, a guest host on The Social and CBC’s q, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.
