The 11th annual Capture Photography Festival welcomes the community to experience and explore Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival from April 1 to 30, 2024.
Capture Photography Festival brings local, national, and international artists together to celebrate lens-based art in all its forms through a variety of public art projects, exhibitions at notable galleries, tours, and panel talks.
Festival venues around Metro Vancouver include: Audain Art Museum, The Black Arts Centre, Contemporary Art Gallery, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, Kasko Gallery, Monte Clark, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Or Gallery, The Polygon Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery, and West Vancouver Art Museum.
“Capture’s mission is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art and I’m thrilled to continue this work with the compelling photography presented in our 11th Festival,” states Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Capture Photography Festival. “Photography continues to prove itself an incredibly powerful means of communication and expression. Our projects exemplify lens-based art’s unique ability to amplify the voices of traditionally underrepresented communities by fostering meaningful dialogue among artists, curators, audiences, organizations, and institutions.”
Capture Photography Festival snaps the shutter with a launch and opening reception on Thursday, April 4, 2024 at The Pendulum Gallery (885 W Georgia Street), where a special exhibition titled On Time, co-curated with Jeff Hamada from art platform Booooooom,will be on view. On Time explores the relationship between time and photography, challenging the traditional notion that an image only captures a single moment in time.
A pair of Featured Exhibitions are already underway If I hadn’t created my own world, I would have died in someone else’s by Diane Severin Nguyen (pictured above) on view at Contemporary Art Gallery until May 5, and Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia by Pussy Riot at The Polygon Gallery until June 2.
Upcoming highlights of the 2024 Capture Photography Festival Public Art program features a host of large scale billboard works:
Will to adorn by Vancouver-based, photo-based installation artist Karice Mitchell Located across five billboards in Vancouver and North Vancouver as Capture Photography Festival’s 2024 Billboard Public Art Commission. Other works located around town involves Furiously Happy by Los Angeles-based artist Arielle Bobb-Willis (pictured right) a multi-sited project on four billboards along East Hastings between Glen St. and Clark Drive Inspired by painters such as Milton Avery, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Miró, and Mary T. Smith. As well,Echoes of a Near Future by Anishinaabe French and Canadian contemporary artist Caroline Monnet will be located at the GreyChurch Billboard at Fraser St. and 15th Avenue.
Other notable events include Speaker Series talks with artists Arielle Bob-Willis and Caroline Monnet, Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMoMA, and Eva Respini, Deputy Director and Director of Curatorial Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
“During challenging times, photography has the potential to spark conversations, incite curiosity, and connect disparate communities. It is the medium of our time and we hope Capture Photography Festival compels our audiences to consider the important place photography holds in both the cultural community and society at large,” adds Wall.
Find the full program of art, events, talks and more online at capturephotofest.com