PhotoED Magazine – Spring/Summer 2023 DIGITAL EXTRA

THE FOOD ISSUE

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ADRIAN DÉNOMMÉ

AMANDA DEVISON

ARIANNE TUBMAN

ARIEL THOMAS

AROSHALINY GODFREY

BLAIR IMMINK

BRENT MYKYTYSHYN

BRIAN GROBERMAN

BRIAN LAVERY

CHRISTINA HAJJAR

COLIN ARTHURS

CRYSTAL DREW

DALE M REID

DANIEL ALVARADO

DENIS CANHASI

ED MCDONOUGH

ELENA GODEFROY

EMMA JULIETTE SHERLAND

ERIC CHENGYANG

ERYN TREVORS

FABIAN OTERO

FATIMA HAIDAR

GARETH JONES

GRACE WANG

GUN ROZE

HEND SHAIKH-NAGI

JACK MCGUIRK

JEROME CLARK

KAMELIA PEZESHKI

KAREN STENTAFORD

KATA ENDRODI

L!N DUPERRON

LORETTA MEYER

MARC SANTOS

MARIE-LOUISE MOUTAFCHIEVA

MARK WANG

MELISSA REMPEL

NATALIE NADEAU

QUEENIE XU

ROB GRAHAM

RODERICK CHEN

SAMANTHA GOH

SARAH WRIGHT

SKIP DEAN

TIM RAHRER

TODD MCLELLAN

TRINA TURL

VITALII SOVHYRA

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

This edition focuses on photographers who share their experiences and experiments with food: food as a necessity, a luxury, an object, a statement, a cultural connector, and so much more.

Photographing food may seem easy since food is a stationary subject, but this genre is far from simple. The same subject bares the weight of interpretation as it develops into a final image. Photographer Brian Lavery, whose work you’ll find in our Digital Edition – Extra (an extension of this print edition), candidly describes his process photographing food: “I wanted to photograph an apple but when I brought the apple and camera together, they would not cooperate. As well, the apple is burdened with Old Testament symbolism. I paused to think. Lemons came to mind.”

From analog experiments like Anthony Carr’s NASA-inspired pepper project, to images made for a digital audience by Gab Bois, what we eat becomes part of a creative process that provides any viewer with a familiar, relatable starting point, regardless of where the conversation may lead. S. Maria Brandt found inspiration to address food waste in the

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back of her fridge, while the work of chef and photographer Ian Kapitan directs us towards a conversation about mental health in the culinary industry.

One of my favourite features in this issue is our FOOD CHAIN project. With only the guideline that food was the theme, images were passed to contributors across Canada in a kind of exquisite corpse photography game. It was fascinating to genuinely not know what to expect from the submissions.

Looking ahead, our 2023 season will focus on back-to-basics themes that aim to engage our readers and challenge them to push their creative thinking around the essentials of life. Look forward to our WATER and LAND themed editions this year.

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FOR THE COFFEE TABLE

A few resources we recommend to quench your thirst for more

VISUAL FEAST: CONTEMPORARY FOOD STAGING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Occupying a space somewhere between art book and how-to guide, Visual Feast’s tagline is that it “reveals a world where food is both an art medium and an edible eccentricity.” You might think of it as a sourcebook of ideas for contemporary food presentation with texts that provide information on the practice of each artist. It contains some eccentric choices: foods and backgrounds appear in pastel colours, compositions are dynamic, and the text looks like it might have been set on an IBM Selectric (younger readers may need to Google that). And yet, the whole menu comes together.

Hardcover, 2017, 217 pages $74.

Gestalten www.chapters.indigo.ca

FEAST FOR THE EYES: THE STORY OF FOOD IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Susan Bright

Susan Bright’s thoughtful overview of food photography is an informed primer that takes in the art of such well-known names as Roger Fenton, Edward Weston, Stephen Shore, Laura Letinsky, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nobuyoshi Araki, and many more. Susan brings a curator’s critical eye to the work of each photographer and helps us to navigate the history of food photography, its status as fine art, and its everyday applications in science and media.

Hardcover, 2017, 304 pages $76.

Aperture Books www.chapters.indigo.ca

STILL LIFE: IRVING PENN PHOTOGRAPHS 1938 – 2000

Irving Penn and John Szarkowski

The title of the book is a hint: it’s been a while since Irving Penn has been around to make images. So few photographers have come close to matching his work for sheer imagination and technical mastery. His fashion and portrait work has sometimes overshadowed the other parts of his practice but, no matter your skill at photographing food, Irving will always have something to teach you. This volume is out of print and used copies can be prohibitively expensive, so you might want to dust off your library card. You’ll be glad you did.

Hardcover, 2001, 144 pages

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HOW-TO: IN THREE COURSES

If artfully created images of food give you the taste for making your own photographs, we suggest these three courses.

That Photo Makes Me Hungry by Andrew Scrivani (food photographer for The New York Times) starts with the basics of seeing light and paying attention, and builds up to the business of how you can get paid to shoot food.

Moving to the next course, Joanie Simon’s Picture Perfect Food is akin to a cookbook, drawing the reader through some of the same territory as the other books mentioned here, but paying more attention to the how-to aspects of food photography in manageable bites. A feature of her practical approach is the many “challenges” she sprinkles throughout the book and her insistence that learning, not gear, is the primary concern: A great oven doesn’t make you a great cook, and a great camera won’t make you Irving Penn!

Over dessert, we can turn our attention to setup, composition, and arrangement with Denise Vivaldo and Cindie Flannigan’s The Food Stylist’s Handbook . The authors have years of experience in film, television, and media, and know exactly how much artifice it takes (like giving steak a spray tan!) to create food images that look so real you can smell them.

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That Photo Makes Me Hungry: Photographing Food for Fun and Profit Andrew Scrivani 2019, 224 pages

Picture Perfect Food: Master the Art of Food Photography with 52 Bite-Sized Tutorials

Joanie Simon

2021, 152 pages

The Food Stylist’s Handbook: Hundreds of Media Styling Tips, Tricks, and Secrets for Chefs, Artists, Bloggers, and Food Lovers

Denise Vivaldo and Cindie Flannigan

2017, 320 pages

Available online www.kobo.com

Sure, there are lots of cooking videos out there, but not all of them make an artful blend of learning, pleasure, and beautiful visuals. Chef’s Table is an extended banquet of documentaries on chefs who have achieved mastery in the kitchen and on the plate. Netflix brags that “restaurants headed by 11 of the chefs in this Emmy-nominated series have made the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list,” and you can see why in loving detail.

Meanwhile, Salt Fat Acid Heat takes a more personal approach by following chef and writer Samin Nosrat as she explores what she considers the four elements of delicious flavour. Samin laughs and cooks her way around visually stunning locations and invites us along for the ride. Bon appétit!

SHOP LOCAL! WE LOVE PRINT

Clearly we’re 200% biased, but we think the freshest food and culture news comes from magazines. We LOVE a visit (in person or online) to check out the unique, hard-to-find, independent magazines from around the world at the Issues magazine shop. Our food-related faves include Serviette, Sandwich, and Cherry Bombe — a magazine that features women within the worlds of food and drink.

Check out the incredible selection at Issues online, or in person at 1489 Dundas St. West in Toronto.

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Shop owner and publisher Mika describes Good Egg books as a series of homemade books published slowly but surely. Some incredibly talented local authors’ recipes and ideas are packaged in small, beautifully designed paper volumes, and are clearly crafted with love.

“We have a special place in out hearts for ingredients that are inexpensive and abundant,” says Mika. For your kitchen or as the perfect gift, we highly recommend these thoughtful (and affordable!) books.

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SCARBOROUGH MADE: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS + CULINARY CULTURE

SCARBOROUGH MADE (SM) IS A SOCIAL IMPACT DOCUMENTARY

organization that champions storytelling through photography and video in Toronto’s East. Co-founded by Alex Narvaez and Sid Naidu in 2019, the multifaceted project aims to shift how marginalized neighbourhoods are portrayed in media by documenting local culture and community stories.

We’ve built this project from our lived experiences as artists growing up in Scarborough to address the representation of underserved neighbourhoods and the lack of creative opportunities present.

SM inspires emerging BIPOC youth artists interested in pursuing visual arts professionally. The project provides mentorship and paid opportunities for youth, allowing them to work with their local community through storytelling and public art.

Connections are made from exchanging positive cultural experiences with one another. Food may be one of the most

valuable cross-cultural connectors to help us explore our shared narrative as a society. Photography is a tool that helps us amplify the importance of communicating connection.

Scarborough is a community where immigrants from all parts of the world contribute to a rich culinary culture. Documenting food in our community is essential in showcasing our diversity. Our local restaurants are cultural institutions that have been important parts of our neighbourhood for decades.

When documenting stories, we always look to strike a connection between people and place. Our youth artists choose the people and topics in the community they want to profile. Youth artist Alyssa Vidal produced a story on Ghadir Meat & Restaurant, a Middle Eastern grocery store and restaurant on Lawrence Avenue East. Owner Ali Dbouk started Ghadir Meat Market when he came to Canada in 1991. In 2016, the store expanded into a restaurant, traditionally grilling their meats on charcoal and opening up

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another store to serve fresh fish brought in from the Mediterranean. The push to extend the business came as Syrian refugees started coming to Canada and Ali saw the need to help others.

Alyssa says, “I’m Filipino, but I was born in Saudi Arabia. Food is an important part of my culture, and as someone who was born and raised in the Middle East before coming to Canada, I had a connection to Ghadir’s because it reminded me of my childhood.”

Through SM, Alyssa participated in training to help her develop skills in documentary storytelling through photography and cinematography. SM helped to facilitate and coordinate her photo shoot and equipped Alyssa with professional camera and audio equipment. With the content she captured, she produced a short video, and one of her photographs was featured in a public art installation at a local transit station.

Youth artist Ferdinand Orlain has watched his neighbourhood change firsthand. The Real McCoy Burgers & Pizza, a landmark for Scarborough, was forced to close its doors after 53 years of service due to new condominium developments. Local customers showed their strength in numbers and kept the restaurant packed until the doors closed for the last time. Ferdinand documented the story of the Real McCoy’s owner George Mihail through photography and videography to share the legacy behind this local eatery and how it had been the go-to neighbourhood place.

Ferdinand says, “I was born in the building right behind the Real McCoy, and I had a lot of family living in the apartments. The gentrification here has been challenging for the community. It takes away jobs, and it takes a while for restaurants to open up again. You never forget your roots. I was happy to document this story for a community that made me who I am today.”

As SM continues to grow and document the Scarborough community, food will always be a topic that brings us to the table to celebrate the diversity and flavours of our home.

For more information about this project, please visit www.scarboroughmade.com IG: @scarboroughmade

“ Scarborough is a community where immigrants from all parts of the world contribute to a rich culinary culture. Documenting food in our community is essential in showcasing our diversity.”

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES

FROM ART HISTORY TO ZOOM LENSES, WE SPOKE TO PHOTOGRAPHER ADAM BORMAN ABOUT HIS WORK.

I WANTED TO CAPTURE MY SUBJECTS IN A WAY THAT RESEMBLES LANDSCAPES OVER STILL LIFE.

photoED: What is it about photography that you love Adam: I think photography opportunity to create something curated, and manufactured, possibilities in capturing a but then, through various techniques, manipulate what was in front story, are endless. That is really

creating stories through most?

photography offers the unique something authentic, documentary, manufactured, simultaneously. The scene that’s in front of you techniques, being able to front of the lens into a different really exciting for me.

photoED: À travers la photographie vous créer des histoire, qu’est-ce qui vous plaît le plus dans cette pratique?

Adam: Je crois que la photographie nous offre l’opportunité de créer simultanément quelque chose d’authentique, documentaire, organisé et manufacturé. Saisir une scène qui est devant nous et ensuite la manipuler à travers diverses techniques offre des possibilités infinies, celles-ci nous permettent de manipuler ce qui est devant l’objectif vers une autre histoire. Ceci m’emballe.

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KAMELIA PEZESHKI

Toronto, ON

“Untitled,” From the Scattered series, 2014

Through a lens, translated into a single frame, even images of inanimate still-life objects such as food or flowers can form emotional connections to significant memories, for both the creator of the image and engaged viewers.

www.kamelia-pezeshki.com

IG:@kameliapezeshkiphotographer

KATE INCE

Toronto, ON CAUGHT

My approach to creating imagery starts off with inspiration from colour palettes and textures I see in architecture and design. This series was created in collaboration with stylist Nicole Billark as we explored ideas around coastline living and the beauty of what the sea offers us.

www.kateince.ca

EMMA JULIETTE SHERLAND

Mississauga, ON Fresh/Death 2022.

“Fresh/Death” examines food insecurity, and presents the question “what is a sustainable lifestyle?” The contrast of apples, oranges, flowers and used tea bags in states of both ultimate freshness or becoming rotten symbolizes how consumer standards have dwindled. Here, the paring knife and butcher’s cleaver represent “cut throat” decision making and the beginning of “cutting costs” for consumers as their liquidity of income has been put into perspective in recent years, and leads to constant questioning of “What food is a necessity?” and “What food is a luxury item?”

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TIM RAHRER

Ottawa, ON

Pineapple Dream

Pineapple Dream is the result of a study in classical Dutch still life composition and an update to 17th century painting subjects of exotic fruits that collided digitally with work done in a 19th century 8x10 dry plate process.

LORETTA MEYER

Kawartha Lakes, ON

Food, Glorious Food!

Food. Its love, its life, its art in itself. I could have gone with fancy beautiful dishes to capture...But I instead chose to focus on ingredients in their truest form before they evolve towards something delicious. Mother Nature is a true artist.

Loretta is a First Nations Indigenous artist who lives with her husband Glen and their rescue dog, Mrs.Kravitz. She is the mother of three, and a grandmother to five. She’s had a love of photography since childhood.

IG: @lorettameyer.fineart

www.lorettameyerfineartphotography.ca

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TODD MCLELLAN

Calgary, AB

We Were

The beauty of aged perishables. A reflection of what normally isn’t viewed.

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TODD MCLELLAN

Calgary, AB

We Were

The beauty of aged perishables. A reflection of what normally isn’t viewed.

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ELENA GODEFROY

Toulouse, FR

Gustative Redundancy

The idea of a world where everything has reached its peak and where boredom reigns. Our time and consumption intensifes in speed. I imagine the progression of our consumerist system until it it reaches something insane. My practice is somewhere between surrealism and the absurd. Reality does not matter to me. I use the expressive power of my medium to create an irrational and poetic universe.

IG: @elena.24mm

Windsor, ON FERTILE

What does it mean to be fertile for a time frame that is quickly slides by? The symbolism of an a uncooked cracked egg is handled and toyed with through this pairing of images. Yolk separated from the white. Splat....cracked egg on antique portrait of a middle aged women. My work investigates these barriers and coping mechanisms I observe in everyday life. How does gender identity and politics come into play as a behaviour of control? Why is mundane life saturated in the idea that everything

must be and have an order? Do we become “mundane” when we achieve what we perceive to be perfection? These are questions that bounce around inside my head as I move through daily life and eventually get teased out and become reality in my artistic practice.

www.natalienadeau.com

GRACE WANG

Toronto, ON MEXICO, 2022

As the sun sauntered across a scorching veranda, where ice barely held shape and papaya was about all we could eat.

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KAMELIA PEZESHKI

Toronto, ON Cake, From the Scattered series, 2018

Through a lens, translated into a single frame, even images of inanimate still-life objects such as food or flowers can form emotional connections to significant memories, for both the creator of the image and engaged viewers.

www.kamelia-pezeshki.com

IG: @kameliapezeshkiphotographer

KAREN STENTAFORD

Sackville, NB

TEATIME TUESDAY

IG: @kdstentaford stentaford.ca

Ten lumen prints, mark ten Tuesday classes.

Teatime Tuesday evolved from time each week to slow down with my students about work checking in with each other. sharing and listening, free of busyness of class time.

The tea was locally sourced and

Tuesday photography

from the desire to make and have conversations in progress, ideas, and This time was about screens and the usual

and once we had a local

herbalist/farmer come in to talk about her love of making tea, her process, and her connection to the land.

Our teatime conversations echoed our course content – awareness of surroundings, being present, and slow photography.

These lumen prints were a document of our time. Once the tea steeped, the ingredients were placed on a piece of photographic paper and left to expose for

the duration of our time gathering. Exposures ranged based on location, changing light as we moved to shorter days, and the length of our conversations.

The first in the series is blank, as we did not begin making lumen prints until the second week, however it is important to reference the time we shared.

JENNIFER

Toronto, Lineage Through

The items in these cyanotype prints were found gifts from relatives reserved for special recipes used and replenished. As a child of a first generation traditional foods we kept in our kitchen from strange or frightening. As an adult and an artist, journey of my family through

JENNIFER CHIN

Toronto, ON

Through Food

found in my grandmother’s pantry. Many were recipes and occasions while others were regularly generation immigrant family, I once hid the from my friends for fear that they would find it artist, I wish to honour the traditions and the through this body of work.

www.jenniferchin.ca

MELISSA REMPEL

Cambridge, ON IN BALANCE

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IG: @capturedby.melissa

ANTHONY CARR

Victoria, BC

THE HOMEGROWN (PANDEMIC) COLLECTION

The artistic possibilities of homegrown peppers seen through the prisms of lunar study and sustainability.

During the pandemic, I started growing peppers from the seeds of a single shop-bought pepper. I decided that I wanted to make a detailed record of them with an approach inspired by NASA’s online Lunar Sample and Photo Catalog, an archive documenting rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from six Apollo missions.

Edward Weston famously photographed peppers in the 1920’s. His experiments involved adapting his view camera to produce ever-smaller apertures, effectively turning it into a psuedo pinhole camera.

I also used a pinhole camera for this series, including one designed with six lenses to capture multiple angles. Almost 100 years after Weston, my lens also gazes towards this unassuming fruit.

Concurrent global climate events have made me think about how my analog photography practice negatively impacts on the environment. I am acutely aware of my own toxic footprint. This has guided many of the decisions made during the development of this work. The most crucial being the formulation of an organic developer used as a replacement for traditional photographic chemistry. Brewed from the leaves and stems of the same pepper plants, this pepper tea developer performs almost as effectively, whilst simultaneously introducing new elements of inconsistency.

Embracing unpredictability and the creative potential for happenstance was emphasized in this series by printing these experiments on expired silver gelatin paper. Both the film soup and vintage paper produce a series of unique, unrepeatable images.

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ARIANNE TUBMAN

To Harvest from the Land Kelowna, BC

A series of documentary photographs I captured during the fall of 2020. Hiking alongside hunters, I captured their experiences both the serene and severe, in their pursuit of harvesting fresh, organic, free-range meat.

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CRYSTAL DREW

St.John, NB

Food At Home

“This project is a personal reflection of food and dishware from my childhood. I enjoy the busy and over-the-top style of vintage food photography, and observing how the idealized home-cooked meal has evolved.”

www.crystaldrew.com

MARIE-LOUISE MOUTAFCHIEVA

Up Close

Woodbridge, ON

We see food on a daily basis and most just see it as a necessity. On a plate, cooked or raw, the aesthetic can be dull, but my view is to see food from an extraordinary perspective.

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MARIE-LOUISE MOUTAFCHIEVA

Caramel

Woodbridge, ON

Creme caramels, Tarte Tatins, and caramel made by me. Exploring the visual splendour of all things caramel.

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FATIMA HAIDAR

Splash photography

Whitby, ON

A food series inspired by motion and splash effects. The colour of the background or food serves as the visual connection between adjacent images, creating an impactful image.

www.fatimahaidarphotos.com

SUSAN HUBER

Salt Spring Island, BC

“The results from long exposures of the plant life around me take viewers out of time, and into their senses, to venture out on soils of past eons, of stories long since told and and now forgotten.”

www.susanhuber.com IG: @susanhuberart

SKIP DEAN

Toronto, ON Homage

Objects are mirrors which reflect our own thoughts.

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RODERICK CHEN

Montreal, QC Food

A visual exploration.

IG: @chenfoto

ERIC CHENGYANG

Study of Equivalent Relations (A Split Peach) Toronto, ON

Fen-tao (lit. divided-peach) is a historic Chinese euphemism for homosexuality. It originated from “Shuinan (The Difficulties of Persuasion)”

written by Han, Feizi circa 3rd Century BC. Inspired by the original text, this photo explores the relation between romance, power, beauty and time.

www.ericchengyang.com

VITALII SOVHYRA

Toronto, ON STILL LIFE IN LARGE FORMAT

As large-format film photography requires a lot of time, so I chose food as my patient subject.

IG: @vitaiisimaging

ED MCDONOUGH

Toronto, ON FOOD; DISCUSS RED CHINA ON A WHITE TABLECLOTH

IG: @edphoto123

ARIEL THOMAS

Halton, ON Enjoy it

My life is slipping away, my kids are growing up, remember it I must. This is a special time. They’re so fragile. Do it right. Give it all to them. Forget the past but don’t forget that this will be the past, sooner than you think. Don’t forget.

IG: @ariel.a.thomas

GARETH JONES

Toronto, ON Strawberries for All

IG:@firstgareth

BRIAN LAVERY

Port Alberni, BC

Lemons

I wanted to photograph an apple but when I brought the apple and camera together, they would not cooperate. As well, the apple is burdened with Old Testament symbolism. I paused to think. Lemons came to mind. www.brianlavery.ca

AROSHALINY GODFREY

Vancouver, BC

Food at Home

A collection of food and produce from my kitchen throughout the seasons of the year.

www.aroshaliny.com

COLIN ARTHURS

Toronto, ON Food in Macro

Everyday produce found in Ontario markets, featured in a new light. With a macro perspective, the images appear abstract.

Toronto, ON Still Lifes

An exploration of reoccuring elements with odd pairings with the intention for the viewer to question the unusual yet appealing nuance.

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MIRIAM TORRES LÓPEZ

Fredericton, NB

Break Fast

We live in a fast-paced world and we are increasingly disconnected. We want everything to be fast, to appear almost by magic. What happened to long family meals where we can chat with each other and make a real connection with people? With this image, I intend for the viewer to reflect on the importance of food as a social element of connection between people.

miriamtorreslopez.myportfolio.com

IG: @miriamtl_photojournal/

Calgary, AB

An ongoing creative series that replaces food with text.

www.brentmphoto.com

IG: @brentmphoto

L!N DUPERRON

Toronto, ON Sponge Cake

A beautiful Sponge Cake served with blueberry confit, fresh whipped cream and lightly powdered with icing sugar.

linduperron.com

IG: @jackskellingtoniam

BLAIR IMMINK

Toronto, ON A Feast (2020)

With found objects and materials, I transform reality around me into a playful fantasy. After all, life is play.

Grounded in reality but influenced by the fantastical, things are collected, curated, transformed, and combined to create an environment familiar, yet uncanny.

Frivolous story-telling is ignited with a maximalist lens. I describe the work as a ‘visual coping mechanism,’ as I’m inherently a silly person trying to enjoy the often cruel reality around us.

I hope to dethrone the serious and pretentious attitude of traditional gallery spaces to make them accessible to people of all intersections. My aim is to remind the viewers that art, and play, can be found every day.

blairsstudio.com

DALE M REID Toronto, ON FALLING FOR YOU

Photography opened my eyes to the beauty and fragility of the world around me. After I left the structured corporate environment and changed genders, this practice has allowed me to explore and develop my creativity. A new energy, passion, and excitement has been sparked that continues to grow daily.

Working with black and white film, I eliminate the distraction of colour, focusing on textures, shapes, staging, and the application of light to craft expressive images.

Working with the deep and warm tones in traditional silver gelatin print making, I create images with a sensual feel ranging from the subtle to the overt. I select my subjects based on what speaks to me emotionally, florals, mushrooms, and pear studies. My mission is to present a unique perspective that engages the viewer and tells a story.

KATA ENDRODI

Montreal, QC

Kata Endrodi’s Captures

Exploring the freshness and IG: @realhungarianeats

and textures of food produce.

JACK MCGUIRK

Burlington, ON

A Splash of Caffeine

Bold, sophisticated, imperfections with a splash of surrealism.

jackmcguirkstudio.com

SAMANTHA GOH

Mama’s Laok

Toronto, ON

Mama’s Laok means mama’s contemporary photography I create a collection of images history and culture through samantha-goh.com

mama’s dish. This project combines photography with traditional ingredients as images to learn about my family’s through food.

BRIAN GROBERMAN

Seasonal Foods?

Burlington, ON

Local forested urban park visuals incorporated into fruit. The elements combine the woods’ fall colours with fresh fruit no longer being aware of seasonality.

QUEENIE XU

uzzi

Toronto, ON

eating cupcakes marked with symbols of home, ‘fashion killa’ is the inner spirit of a higher self

IG- Queenie000x

GUN ROZE

Street Food

Toronto, ON

As an observant street-based photographer, I often encounter various foods left in different states on surfaces throughout the streets. My ongoing series is titled “Street Food”, a literal representation of found food on the street.

www.shot-by-gun.com

HEND SHAIKH-NAGI

Pancake

Hamilton, ON

Food photography takes me to the next level. It is a therapy for me. I enjoy styling and muniplating to create an impactful image.

IG: @photographybyhend

MARK WANG

A Bowl In A Bowl

Toronto, ON

In “A Bowl in A Bowl”, the idea of being has been deconstructed and reconstructed. By manipulating and compositing different forms and appearances of bowls, the project presents the liquidity of sensibility.

ERYN TREVORS

Empire Studio 5, Circa 2011

Fredericton, NB

I was inspired by nostalgia for childhood birthday parties I attended in the early 2010’s. Especially those in the party rooms of the Empire Studios, movie theatre chain.

IG: @er_yn.t

ADRIAN DÉNOMMÉ

Ciammella

Toronto, ON

This work explores intergenerational knowledge transfer, isolation and mental health amongst elderly populations. Nonna is experiencing early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She is making Ciammella - a type of bread from the region of Frosinone, Italy. This project allowed me to document a special ritual as it too fades away. www.adriandenomme.com

CHRISTINA HAJJAR Illuminations

Winnipeg, MB

Hajjar projects Arab foods (rose tea, rose water, lemons, dates) and jewelry on her body, blend still life and performance, touching on the subject of queer diasporic longing, familial histories, pleasure, loss, love, and femininity.

christinahajjar.com