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To All My Friends by Patrick O’Dell

To All My Friends by Patrick O’DellLocation: Studio Gallery294 College Street, 2nd Floor (Just west of Spadina above The Savannah Room)Start Date: 2008-06-27Start Time: 20:00End Date: 2008-07-22
Studio Gallery is proud to present Patrick O’Dell’s, To All My Friends from Friday, June 27 until Wednesday, July 23. The exhibition is an intimate collection of photographs [...]

Roy Arden

Title: Roy Arden Location: Monte Clark Gallery 55 Mill St. (Bldg. 2) Start Date: 2008-07-24 End Date: 2008-09-07
Description: Vancouver photoconceptualist Roy Arden is intrigued by the very act of presenting work to audiences. Starkness is his trademark, with images, some of them appropriated, standing as reminders of such complex modern phenomena as urbanization. His [...]

Shanghai 1860-1949: Historical Photographs

Title: Shanghai 1860-1949: Historical Photographs Location: Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park) Start Date: 2008-06-21 End Date: 2008-10-26
Description: A complement to Shanghai Kaleidoscope, Shanghai 1860-1949 presents eighty historical photographs that document Shanghai’s architecture, inhabitants and way of life in the hundred years up to 1949.
Shanghai’s current incarnation as China’s most modern and booming metropolis is [...]

Shanghai Kaleidoscope

Title: Shanghai Kaleidoscope Location: Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park) Start Date: 2008-06-20 End Date: 2008-11-02
Description: This unprecedented view of one of the world’s most dynamic cities examines Shanghai as a laboratory for 21st-century urban creation. Leading artists, architects and fashion designers provide an insider’s view of the high-speed, high-density, high-rise culture that is rapidly [...]

Portraits, Nudes & Landscapes by Robert Giard

Where: Stephen Bulger Gallery
When: June 14 to August 2, 2008
Press release: The gallery’s first exhibition as representative for the Estate of Robert Giard will feature a selection of vintage prints from three genres: landscapes of the South Fork of Long Island, portraits of artists and writers, and the nude figure.
Beginning in 1972, Giard photographed “The [...]

Visa Pour l’Image director talks about mags

A Photo Editor posted 9 days ago an interview with Jean-François Leroy, founder and current director of Visa Pour l’Image, the Perpignan photojournalism festival.
I’ve taken an excerpt from Monsieur Leroy’s words. Here it is:
I’m sorry to have to say this yet again – everyone’s getting sick of it, and I’m told that I’m biting the [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to lighTO. Forgive me for using the most exploited title in the World. I thought this place deserved its little “Hello world!” too. A bit of Googlin’ reveals over 13 million coincidences for those famous first words.
lighTO is intended to articulate both as a website and as a print magazine. The website will be [...]