Luther Konadu: Ambient Photo
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The New Gallery 208 Centre Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 2B6
Luther Konadu, "Ambient Photo," 2018
An opening reception for members and invited guests will take place on Friday, July 6 at 8PM. Admission is free and all are welcome.
In conjunction with this exhibition, Konadu has curated a screening of Killer of Sheep and the short film, Several Friends, on Thursday, July 26 at 7PM at Globe Cinema (617 8 Ave SW). Tickets to this screening are $12 at the door and on Eventbrite, or $10 at the door with a valid student ID. Thank you to the Globe for their generous support of this program!
Luther Konadu’s photographic processes and experiments ultimately seek to expand ways of viewing. As part of one continuous documentary series, Konadu’s work considers a discursive approach to self-portraiture; one that is less linked to autobiography but rather to a diverging collective identity. Konadu’s work acknowledges the legacies of social documentary photography as an interpretive site for constructing narratives that counter prevailing and dominant ones. Konadu is interested in how he can create an alternate past in order to imagine a different future of self. The resulting fragment images highlight Konadu’s close community of family of friends in his personal studio as they create a document of self on their own terms.