Issue: 2018.2 Photography This issue’s theme, Photography, is an exciting look at how the medium can be balanced between the worlds of traditional photography and printmaking. The methodology of photography, light creating images through photosensitive films and emulsions, is the basis of collaboration and manipulation between mediums. Today, a photograph could live its entire life on digital platforms or as a physical printed object. A photograph can intersect printmaking through digital layers printed via large format inkjet printers, or negatives and positives exposed onto a silkscreen or a photolitho/etching/polymer plate. Download PDF
River of Shadows Book Review by Charlie Crittenden “He had captured aspects of motion whose speed had made them as invisible as the moons of Jupiter before the telescope, and he found a way to set them back in motion. It was as though he... Read More
Invention and Obsolescence – A Timeline of Photographic Processes 1826 1839 1841 1842 1856 1861 1877 1903 ~400 BCE: Chinese mathematician Mozi explained how the inverted image works in camera obscura. ~1027: Arab physicist Ibn al-Haytham experimented with camera obscura by passing light through small pinholes, and contributed significantly... Read More
Photos from the City of Edmonton Cemeteries Artist Residency by Candace Makowichuk The medium I work in is historical photographic processes including: Cyanotype, Bromoil, Gum Bichromate, Liquid Emulsions and Silver Gelatin. My art is made by patience and quiet observations, using primarily a historic bellows sheet film camera, and... Read More
Ethics and Consent in Street Photography by Danielle Houghton As a practicing street photographer I may be understood as having a biased view of the issue of ethics in street photography: clearly I must find it ethical to invade strangers privacy with my camera. It is,... Read More
My Process – Angela Snieder by Wendy McGrath Whether Vermeer used a camera obscura when he painted is debatable, but, there is no doubt printmaker Angela Snieder makes innovative use of the camera obscura in her work. When I visited her SNAP studio, displayed on... Read More
Angela Snieder SNAPline featured artist: Angela Snieder Angela Snieder is a visual artist working in print-media, photo-based printmaking, and installation. Her practice explores relationships between physical and psychological spaces, and the transformative potential of contemplative attention. She holds a BFA from York... Read More
Exhibition Preview with Walter Jule Written by Charlie Crittenden LIGHT/MATTER: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking runs from May 11 to June 2 at the FAB Gallery, with an extended exhibition in Gallery A at the Telus Centre and a companion show at... Read More