2008
Exhibitions
Zhari-Panjwai
Dalhousie University Art Gallery
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Print installation with audio
Photographer Craig Barber's work, Ghosts in the Lanscape: Vietnam Revisited will also be exhibited for this symposium. More of his work can be seen on his website.
This exhibition will be held in conjunction with the symposium.
The Politics of Forgetting: Stories to Pass On
This symposium is a meeting of the Politics and the Arts research team of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change and several Canadian and American academics, artists and journalists. The symposium will be held at The University of King’s College, Halifax. Thursday May 22 to Saturday, May 24, 2008. I will also give a talk and presentation on Saturday with Craig Barber
External keynote speakers will include:
Christopher Browning, author of Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Memories (2003), Dominick LaCapra, author of Writing History, Writing Trauma (2000), and Alison Nordström (co-author of Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited (2006). Michael Donovan, producer and writer of the film Shake Hands with the Devil, concerning Romeo Dallaire in Rawanda, and Sylvia Hamilton, director of the 2007 documentary The Little Black Schoolhouse on segregated schooling in Canada.
This event will be open to the public.
For more information click here
Portland Art Museum
New on the wall: Recent Photography Acquisitions
Helen Copeland Gallery
February 23 - June 15, 2008
Portland, Oregon USA
Hasselblad Master Award
Berlin, Germany
September 23-29
Cancer Project - Photosensitive
Will be presented in the form
of printed exhibitions and will also include
web/digital media and the publishing
of a book. Launch in April during the Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil
Month. Simultaneous project launches at City Halls in major centres
of each province across Canada (other venues TBD). Project Coordinator
Oksana Sushko. Some of the many participating photographers include;
Andrew Stawicki, Patti Gower, Peter Bregg, Yuri Dojc, V. Tony Hauser
and Steve Simon.
AWARDS:
PUBLICATIONS:
B&W Magazine
Spotlight Feature
Portfolio feature and interview with David Best
Hasselblad Master Award Book
Published by teNeues
To be released fall of 2008
OTHER
Portrait Gallery of Canada
Prints acquired for Collection
SLAGUE – L’histoire d’un mineur
Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Multi-media collaboration using projection of Cage Call images for play.
This is a French translation of Spitting Slag, a text by Mansel Robinson.
The play will also perform in Montreal and will tour Québec, Ontario and New Brunswick.
NPR
Washington DC
Radio Interview and online feature
Inside Guantanamo Bay
CBC Radio Q
Interview with Jian Ghomeshi and Charlie Angus
CBC Radio Q site and download the March 25 podcast, here.
2007
Exhibitions
INVIDEO 2007-AIACE-INVIDEO
Cage Call multi-media piece selected for program
Milan, Italy- Spazio Oberdan
San Gimignano, Italy- Sala Tamagni
Bruxelles, Belgium- Palais de Beaux-Arts
Applied Arts
Photography & Illustration Annual Awards
Exhibit.
Toronto, Canada
INVIDEO 2007
AIACE-INVIDEO
Cage Call multi-media piece selected for program
Milan, Italy
Visa Pour L'Image
Visa d'or Daily Press Exhibition
Perpignan, France
PX3 Prix de le Photographie PARIS
Gallerie 13Sevigne
Paris, France
June/July
Center for Documentary Studies Duke University
Digital projection of
Cage Call; work selected second
year in a row.
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Canadian War Museum / Mus'e Canadien de la Guerre
'Afghanistan: A Glimpse of War'
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
February 9, 2007 to January 6,
2008
Curated by Historian Andrew Burtch
Witness: Know War/Know Genocide
Selected for Exhibition
Includes work by Margaret Bourke-White,
David Douglas Duncan, Joseph Koudelka, Rita Leistner, Edward Steichen
and Susan Meiselas.
George Eastman House International
Museum of Film and Photography
Curated by Alison Nordstrom
Rochester, NY
January 20 through April 22,
2007
The Thousand Words of Photojournalism
The Canadian Commission for UNESCO
(United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Annual General Meeting
Westin Hotel
Ottawa, Canada
Denver International Airport Invitational Exhibition
DIA Main Gallery
Denver, Colorado
Juried by Tim Anderson, publisher,
CameraArts magazine
Organized by The Center for Fine
Art Photography
February 21 - May 21
AWARDS
Visa Pour L'Image
Visa d'or Daily Press Award Nominee
Fourth year in a row (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Perpignan, France
PX3 Prix de le Photographie PARIS
Photojournalism ' First Prize,
Second Prize and Honourable Mention in The Photojournalism Category
Canadian Association of Journalism
Winner ' CAJ 2007 Award for outstanding
investigative journalism in Canada in the photojournalism
category for - Afghanistan: Ghosts
of War
B&W Magazine
Portfolio Contest Spotlight Award
19th International Photography Meeting
CEDEFOP/PHOTOMUSEUM award
Semi-Finalist
Thessaloniki, Greece
International Journalism Award (UCIP)
Laureate 2007
Applied Arts Magazine
Photography & Illustration Awards Annual
Awards for Afghanistan and Sewer
Cleaners work
Black and White Spider Awards
Nominee in Photojournalism
PUBLICATIONS
This section is for critical reviews, exhibition catalogues, portfolio
features and books. Editorial assignment credits can be provided
on request.
POLAR INERTIA
Journal of Nomadic and Popular Culture.
The Golden Triangle
Images from the Industrial Cathedrals of the North project
(www.polarinertia.com)
PX3 Prix de le photographie PARIS
2007 Annual Book
Paris, France
B&W Magazine
Portfolio Feature
Issue TBA
Blue Sky Gallery
05/06 Blue Sky
2005/06 Exhibitions Catalogue
Portland, Oregon
SHOTS Magazine
Seleceted for Issue 96
Editor: Russell Joslin
Minneapolis, Minnesota
OTHER
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA
Book collaborations with writing partner Charlie Angus now in the National Library
of Canada. Beginning in the 1990's I collaborated with long-time writing partner
Charlie Angus on numerous PROJECTS: while working on the Cage Call book. We
experimented with our work, combining text and images. This resulted in two PROJECTS:,
Industrial Cathedrals of the North and Mirrors of Stone. These
published pieces authored by Charlie Angus can be now be found in the National
Library of Canada and have also been selected by numerous libraries throughout
Canada and the United States.
Follow this link for more information
Cage Call
Book to be released October 31,
2007
Published by Blue Sky Gallery
As part of the Critical Mass
Award
The book will be available through
most retailers
Lecture and Slide Presentation
George Eastman House
International Museum of Film
and Photography
Rochester, New York
Sunday, November 11, 2007, 2
p.m.
For the release of the book
Cage Call: Life and Death in
the Hard Rock Mining Belt
Photolucida
Speaker
with Tom Stoddart and Wolfgang
Zuborn
Portland, Oregon
Women Photojournalists of Washington
Speaker
July, 2007
PhotoSensitive
Invited to participate in THE
CANCER PROJECT
A nation-wide photo project with
the goal
of engaging Canadians in the
fight against
this dreadful disease
Critical Mass
Finalist
2nd year running
2006
Exhibitions
International Fine Art Photography Exhibition
The Center for Fine Art Photography,
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Juried by Philip Brookman
Senior Curator of Photography
and Media Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
DC
The Thousand Words of Photojournalism
The Canadian Commission for UNESCO
(United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Canadian Newspaper Association
Lobby Constitution Square II
Ottawa, Canada
Inaugural Masters of Photography International Charity Exhibition
Curitiba, Brazil.
Curated by Basil O'Brien
The exhibition raised money to
build an Activity Center for APADEH (Associ'o Paranaense para o
Desenvolvimento do Potencial),
a school that provides education in a fully integrated environment
for children with and without
special needs. The school is
based in Curitiba in the south
of Brazil.
International Exhibition of Artistic Photography
Gjon Mili Award
Galeria e Arteve e Kosoves
The Kosovo Art Gallery
Prishtina
Curated by Andrew Testa
Lightstalkers - Australian Projection Night
Melbourne Victoria, Australia
Curated by Tony Reddrop
Temporary Cities - Moscow, Russia
International ArtExpo Collection
Ministry of Culture and Mass
Media of the Russian Federation
Federal Agency for Culture and
Cinematography
National Center for Contemporary
Arts
Director Luca Curci
- digital projection of Cage
Call
International Dance-Video Festival
Rivoli Teatro Municipal
ESAP / Escola das Artes Catholic
University
Porto, Portugal
digital projection of Cage Call
Visa Pour L'Image, International Festival of Photojournalism
Visa d'Or-Daily Press Exhibition
Perpignan, France
Contact
Toronto Photography Festival
Junction Outdoor Projection,
Images from Afghanistan
May, 2006
Voies Off Fringe Festival
Rencontres Internationale de
la Photographie
Audiovisual projection of Cage
Call
Arles, France
FotoGrafia International Festival of Rome
Hadrian's Temple
Rome, Italy
Digital projection of Cage Call
April 4 to 6
Centrum f'r fotografi
Stockholm, Sweden
Group show with Neil Goldstein
and Nathalie Latham
Gallery Director/Curator Gunilla
Muhr
Digital projection of Cage Call
February 23-April 2
Bluesky Gallery
Portland, Oregon, USA
Curated by Kirsten Rian
Print show of Cage Call
March 2-April 1
Lecture and slide presentation
March 3
Center for Documentary Studies
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, USA
Tenth Annual Documentary Happening
Digital projection of Cage Call
March 3'5
Simon Fraser University
Teck Gallery, Vancouver Campus
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada
Curated by Bill Jefferies
Print show of Cage Call
April 10 to May 30, 2006
Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, Massachusetts, USA
Exhibition with Johannes Hepp
Curated by Blake Fitch
Print Show of Cage Call
November 30, 2006-January 14,
2007
Vital Signs: Focus on Young Photographers
George Eastman House International
Museum of Film and Photography
Rochester, New York, USA.
Selected for group show with
Bremner Benedict, Peter Holzhauer, Eirik Johnson, Chris McCaw,
A. Leo Nash, Lori Nix, Ken Rosenthal,
Lisa Klapstock, Johannes Hepp, Astrid Kruse Jensen and Simon Norfolk.
Curated by Alison Devine Nordstrom
To become a travelling show until
2009
Venues and dates yet to be announced
Nominee Visa d'Or Daily Press Award
Third year in a row (nominated
2004, 2005, 2006)
Visa Pour L'Image, International
Festival of Photojournalism
Perpignan, France
Editor & Publisher
Newspaper Photos of the Year
Honourable Mention
Feature photography
International Photography Awards
Photographer of the Year Competition
3 Honourable Mentions, in Editorial
Category and two photo essays
Eastern Canadian New Photographers Association
Pictures of the Year Awards
3rd place Toronto Star Picture
story Award
2nd place The Globe and Mail
Social Issues Reporting Award
Leica European Book Publisher's Award
Finalist
- For Cage Call
American Photography 22
Chosen
OTHER:
Photography Now: one hundred portfolios
Selected as one of the 100 photographers
for an international survey of photography
Juried by curators from Europe,
Japan and the United States organized
by Wright State University in
Dayton, Ohio.
George Eastman House
Pictures acquired for Collection
Rochester, New York
USA
Portland Museum of Art
Pictures acquired for Collection
Portland, Oregon
USA
Eastern Canadian News Photographers Association
Pictures of
the Year Chair
2005
EXHIBITIONS:
Recent Acquisitions from the Library and Archives of Canada
Gatineau Presentation Centre
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Curated by JoAnne Stober
International Fine Art Photography Exhibition
The Center for Fine Art Photography
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Juried by Hal Gould
Ping Yao International Photography Festival
Ping Yao, China
Visa Pour L'Image
International Festival of Photojournalism
Visa d'Or Daily Press Exhibition, Perpignan, France
Photographic Center Northwest
Annual Focused exhibition
Seattle,
Washington, USA.
Juried
by Mary Virginia Swanson
Vital Signs: Focus on Young Photographers
George Eastman House International
Museum of Film and Photography
Rochester, New York, USA.
Curated by Alison Devine Nordstrom
7th Internationale Fototage
Mannheim/Ludwigshafen Germany,
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Curated by Tina Schelhorn
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International Photojournalism
Magazine
Featured in the November issue
Feature story in November issue
a compendium of Canadian photographers
Magenta Publishing for the Arts
AWARDS:
Gold Medal
Member of Gold Medal
winning Staff at The
Globe and Mail
'Cage Call' photo essay part of The Globe and Mail
photo department's 'Best Use of Photography' award
Photographer of the Year Competition
4 Honourable Mentions, for Editorial
work
in the photo essay, portrait
and personality categories
The Center for Fine Art Photography
Honourable Mention
Merit for Photojournalism
2nd place documentary category
Silver Medal for photography
Photography & Illustration Awards Annual
Honourable Mention
Finalist - CAJ Photojournalism
Award
Pictures Of the
Year
1st place, The Toronto Star Picture Story
Award
2nd place, The Globe and Mail
Social Issues Reporting
Award
3rd place, The Globe
and Mail Social Issues Reporting Award
UNESCO Headquarters
(United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
Paris, France
UN Pavilion at EXPO 2005
Aichi, Japan
International Festival of Photojournalism
Visa d'Or-Daily Press Exhibition
and evening projection Perpignan,
France
Nomination Award, Daily Life
Category
Guangzhou, China
Finalist
Photography & Illustration Awards Annual
Pictures Of
the Year
1st place, The Toronto Star Picture Story
Award
2nd place, The Globe and Mail
Social Issues Award
3rd place, The Globe
and Mail Social Issues Award
Honourable Mention, The Globe
and Mail Social Issues Award
Honourable Mention, The Nikon
Portrait Personality Award
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