ARTIST FEATURES

These intimate conversations with creative professionals from diverse communities provides nuanced career advice for emerging BIPOC + Queer creatives and their allies. By prioritizing diverse perspectives, we benefit ALL of the university’s community. It is now a matter of professional practice for both students and faculty to actively work to understand the labour, the challenges, and the historical importance of creative output from BIPOC communities.

A CONVERSATION WITH:

Ajeuro Abala, Deion Squire-Rousse & Christina Oyawale

Join us at Artscape Gallery for an artists and curator discussion regarding our current exhibition: IT'S REAL BC IT HAPPENED

The exhibition and artist residency featuring 4th-year IMA photo student, Deion Squires-Rouse and photo alum, Ajeuro Abala, curated by Artspace Gallery's summer Researcher in Residence Christina Oyawale.

A CONVERSATION WITH:

Derrick Black & Jeff Bierk

Join us as we interview Moss Park Mayor Derrick Black and photographer Jeff Bierk about consent, the ethics of documentary photography, and activist group ESN Toronto (Encampment Support Network).

A CONVERSATION WITH:

Eve Tagny

Join us for an intimate conversation with Eve Tagny, as she answers student questions about understanding one’s practice, negotiating imposter syndrome, and more!

VISUAL STUDIES:

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour & Ryan Ferko

This conversation provides an exciting overview of PFR's collaborative and experimental film practice, tracing some of the performative, spatial, and iterative processes behind their collaborative approach to image making.

ETHICS OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY:

Pat Kane & Liam Maloney

Moderated by Liz Ikiriko

For this online panel, award-winning documentary photographers Pat Kane and Liam Maloney will discuss the access, power and privilege that is negotiated between photographer, subject and audience as it relates to their photo practices. Sharing experiences of working in conflict zones and in underserved communities, Kane and Maloney will discuss their understanding of the power dynamics that exist for all photographers and what strategies they employ to ensure ethical representation within their work.