The Capture Photography Festival returns to Metro Vancouver April 1 – 28, 2017 for the fourth year. Celebrating photography and lens-based art Capture Festival features over 100 free exhibitions, public art projects and events throughout the lower mainland. All events are open to the public with an aim of increasing awareness of the cultural importance…
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Richmond & Capture Photography Festival No 3 Road Artist Call
This spring the city was filled with the creative and artistic works from Capture Photography Festival. One of the highlights that brought awareness of the Festival and allowed everyone to enjoy the works was the Public Installations like those all along the Canada Line. Carrying on in the footsteps of those projects, the City of…
Join an Instameet to #ExploreBCDay
In honour of BC Day on August 1 2016, Hello BC is helping to organize a day of Instameets around the province as a way to celebrate the holiday. What’s an Instameet? An Instameet is a gathering of photographers and Instagrammers who come together, at a pre-set time and place, to take photos and upload them to Instagram. Visitors and…
Capture Photo Festival Launch & Inaugural Lind Prize
Friday evening the 3rd Annual Capture Photography Festival got underway with an opening exhibition at the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. The show featured the finalists for the inaugural Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, presented by Presentation House Gallery. The Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize is a new award, supported by Rogers Communications to recognize Mr Lind’s…
Capture Photography Festival – April 1 – 28, 2016
Tomorrow, the 2016 edition of the Capture Photography Festival gets underway. For the third year, the annual not-for-profit festival celebrates local and international artists producing challenging and thought-provoking photographic works. The festival also works to encourage new artist, engage the public with stimulating dialogue. This year, over 75 artists’s exhibitions, tours, talks, public installations and…
NOH8 Campaign stops in Vancouver
For only the second time in Canada, the NOH8 Campaign came to Vancouver on May 8th for an open photo shoot. Founded in 2009 by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and partner Jeff Parshley as a silent photographic protest against California’s Proposition 8, aimed to eliminate the right for same-sex couples to marry, NOH8 has grown…