Mitch Robertson Work from Economies of Good and Evil. “When I get a hold of Toronto artist Mitch Robertson at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery in Halifax, he’s just returned from dropping off his son. The father and son team had been getting the gallery ready for Robertson’s show 5,6,7: Economies of Good & Evil. […]

Richard Barnes Work from the series Mumur. Last week at a Thai restaurant, I had a sterling land on my plate of Pad Ga-Proa and eat some of my dinner. Thankfully I had finished, but other diners at the establishment did not share my fortune.  “European starlings have a way of appearing in unexpected places […]

Daniel Ehrenworth Work from Sky / Water. “Sky/Water is a series of black and white inkjet prints which butt together a separate shot of the sky and the water to form a fake horizon. In addition to being a tonal study, the work is about that act of thinking.” – courtest of the artist.

  Tess Hurrell Work from Chaology. “My practice is primarily using photography as a framework, a context for ideas of perception, discovery, proof and understanding. Using it’s uniquely complex language, I aim to create images that communicate on different levels about the way in which we see and observe. ‘Chaology’ This series grew from a […]

Yuki Onodera Work from Eleventh Finger I saw some of Onodera’s work (albeit not this work) at Photo Paris this year, and I reencountered her work at Van Zoetendaal and decided to share. “Paris-based Japanese artist Yuki Onodera makes intellectual hybrid art that plays in and around photography.  For this series of surreptitious snapshots of […]

Matthew Gamber  Work from This is (still) the Golden Age “As one of the first photographic methods, the photogram was empirically valued for its ability to trace an object by direct contact. To view a photogram is to witness the recent absence of an object that had touched the paper. The need to experience that […]

Nik Mirus Work from the series Blackboard Landscapes and People and Quiet Spaces. Blackboard Landscapes: “There is something to be said about sitting in an empty classroom, (generally a very static/clinical environment) and staring at a 4 x 12 foot black chalkboard. I became very interested in observing these classroom blackboards. They’re surfaces always seemed […]

Elizabeth Raymer Griffin Work from Tacking, Rigging, and Weighting and Lifejackets. All prints are 4×5 contact prints (or several of them). Check out her video collaboration with Matt Griffin. “I am concerned with breaking patterns. In my work, I explore personal pathologies, both inherited and invented. I spend a tremendous amount of time analyzing my […]