I have my very first solo photography exhibition running this month at the North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St. entitled SLOW DOWN, LOOK CLOSER. Please check it out if you’re in the area and see Willowdale from a “bee’s eye view”.
Details over at http://slowdownlookcloser.chrisnolan.ca/
LoveTheRavines has their Fall4Ravines photography exhibit on display at Patagonia Toronto (500 King St W) until the first week of December, and four of my photos are on display. Please take a few minutes to consider signing their petition to add the Don and the Humber Rivers to the Ontario Greenbelt.
I wanted to give a shout out to the other photographers (in no particular order) who had their images selected. I look forward to meeting you Dec 3 at the evening reception at Patagonia.
Nicole Czorny nczorny , Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos (ig: @sloanesiklos), Joanna Johnston (ig: @joannacjohnston), Sammy T (ig: @sammytangir), Ashley Therriault (ig: @ashtario), @lisarobertsonpics, Jonathan Scott Duder (ig: @jonathanduder ), Jeff Coussin: aka The Life & Adventures of Lenny Dawg (ig: @luciditydesign), Gabriel Bizeau-Régis (ig: @atroutatemyhomework), Gary Wallenwein ig: @totemblaze, Dan Berman ig: @scriptdr.
Here is my collage of the images as arranged to match those hung and curated by Phil Anderson, Executive Director of Gallery 1313. I had excepted image titles and instagram ids at the exhibit, but there wasn’t any when I checked it out Nov 15 (update: the Official Facebook album had captions/titles for the images so I updated below (only 17 of the pics are there though)). I’ll included them as I searched around below.
Collage 1, top left to bottom right are:
Collage 2, top left to bottom right:
And the final collage are three by sammytangir:
Here is a link to all the #Fall4Ravine tags on instagram via iconosquare.
A photo I took of a neighbour’s magnolia tree won 3rd place in the SCB-Toronto Photo Contest.
The Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) is an international professional organization dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving the Earth’s biological diversity. SCB has local chapters across the globe that provide opportunities for members to engage in conservation at the local level.
SCB-TO is one of these local chapters, we strive to build a network of active conservation biologists from the three local academic research universities – University of Toronto, York University and Ryerson University, as well as government, non-government and private agencies operating within the Greater Toronto Area. Our goal is to facilitate the discussion of and solutions to urban conservation biology issues that threaten the function of Toronto’s local ecosystems.
Winning Magnolia Tree Photo
All the winning photos are being exhibited all week at Baka Gallery Cafe near Runnymede Subway Station in Bloor West area, and the award ceremony will take place Friday evening.
Thanks to Sheridan Nurseries for my prize.
You can also view a version on Instagram.
In continuing the recent theme of portraits of powerful women, here is a selection of Maxim Vakhovskiy‘s figure portraits featuring women and their babies. Check out his book, Black Venus and many of his other stunning photographs on his tumblr.
Photography student Hannah Price was first catcalled shortly after moving to Philadelphia in 2009 and was thrown off guard. She reacted by taking the portraits of the men who were doing the cat calling and has put together a gallery exhibit entitled “City of Brotherly Love”.
NPR’s Codeswitch as an interview with her titled A Photographer Turns Her Lens On Men Who Catcall, and the Morning News as a piece titled My Harassers.
A video with the photographer done for her exhibit at the Stockton Art Gallery is worth viewing as well.
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh took her displeasure of having to suffer this behaviour nearly daily to the streets themselves. She began a series of posters she put up around her Brooklyn neighbourhood as her way of speaking back to her harassers and this has spawned the Stop Telling Women to Smile project. After a successful Kickstarter campaign last month, she is taking the posters on the road. You can also buy some posters to put up in your neighbourhood too.
There are stories all over the web from women who do not appreciate this behaviour: a project last year simply called Catcalled collects the experiences of a set of women over a set period of time, and blogger Nic has a well articulated article on her experiences.
Have you been catcalled or wolf whistled? How did it make you feel? What is an acceptable form of compliment in your opinion? On the flip side, men, do you wolf whistle and if so, why?
In 2005 artist Ana Álvarez-Errecalde responded to a recurring dream she was having and decided to take self portraits of herself, and her newborn daughter. The resulting images she has titled “Birth of My Daughter (or El Nacimiento de Mi Hija)”
Ana Alvarez-Errecalde on the birth of her daughter says: “I open, I transform, I bleed, I scream and I smile”
I am moved to share her photos because I feel birth is a monumentally inexplicable alteration of reality and in our culture it is too rarely revealed as such. If you are having a child, please explore your options of how your family can truly experience the beauty of birth.
If you are curious about the origin of the images, please watch the short documentary “Umbilical Self-portrait” by MiNuShu.
To see some of Ava Álvarez-Errecalde current work, where she has created bodysuits representing nude forms (called the More Store), review this article at Empty Kingdom and this piece at Elephant Journal.
Visitors to the “More Store” try on different body images.
Thanks to Brooke @ Violicious for bring my attention to Bauhauswife’s post sharing her thoughts on the work.
ana álvarez-errecalde’s Simbiosis
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