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This exhibition brings into dialogue two Vancouver photographers of different generations and sensibilities. Through distinctive approaches to working with cameras, they share an approach to the act of looking as a decidedly conditional, complex process. The close scrutiny elicited by their photographs reveals that what is depicted is not immediately visible. Whether wielding a camera in domestic and urban spaces, or experimenting in the studio with photographic equipment, Hill-Carroll and Kleyn share an appreciation for the enigmas of the mundane world. Their observations breathe life into the overlooked and previously invisible, in ways that tease out the limits of human and mechanical vision to question what is actually photographable. Nevertheless, they embrace the phantasmagoric effects of illumination as subject matter in itself, and as evidence of the passage of time. The absent bodies inhabiting these photographs: soap, a bus shelter, ripped paper, a lens, fleshy material,...More
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This exhibition brings into dialogue two Vancouver photographers of different generations and sensibilities. Through distinctive approaches to working with cameras, they share an approach to the act of looking as a decidedly conditional, complex process. The close scrutiny elicited by their photographs reveals that what is depicted is not immediately visible. Whether wielding a camera in domestic and urban spaces, or experimenting in the studio with photographic equipment, Hill-Carroll and Kleyn share an appreciation for the enigmas of the mundane world. Their observations breathe life into the overlooked and previously invisible, in ways that tease out the limits of human and mechanical vision to question what is actually photographable. Nevertheless, they embrace the phantasmagoric effects of illumination as subject matter in itself, and as evidence of the passage of time. The absent bodies inhabiting these photographs: soap, a bus shelter, ripped paper, a lens, fleshy material,...More