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Calgary-based non-profit, the Exposure Photography Festival announces its programme and exhibiting artists for its eighteenth edition of the festival, to take place throughout February 2022. Previous festivals have received over 850,000 visits and this year Exposure estimates another large audience to the extensive program of exhibitions and events hosted in galleries, local businesses, online and outdoors.

Exposure’s curated exhibitions, the International Open Call and Emerging Photographers Showcase, will be hosted at Contemporary Calgary, a significant visual arts destination dedicated to modern and contemporary art. The exhibitions present a broad range of works, including photocollage, conceptual photography, politically engaged practices and works that embrace social and individual experience, as well as visual explorations of identity and personal narratives.

The Exposure 2022 International Open Call exhibition will feature the work of photographers and visual artists based around the world who incorporate, celebrate, or challenge the photographic medium within their practices. Selected by Julie Crooks, Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the exhibition will present the works of contemporary photographers based in Canada, Argentina, Australia, China, Saudi Arabia, UK and USA.

The Exposure 2022 Emerging Photographers Showcase celebrates the rich talent of early-career practitioners who are based in the province. Selected by Hana Kaluznick, Assistant Curator in the Department of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition presents the work of photographers based in Calgary, Edmonton, Canmore and Medicine Hat while providing an insight into our dynamic and growing community of fine art photographers here in the Alberta.

Exposure’s 2021 Emerging Photographers of the Year award recipient Joel Matthew Warkentin will be presenting new work ‘The Parable of the Boy and the Barren Olive Tree’. The exhibition is an introspective personal journey of Joel’s upbringing, both within and without the institution of the Baptist Church, explored through photography, sculpture and performance.

Online Events: Photo-Zine Talks & Discussions, February 11 at 6:30 -8:30 pm & February 13 at 1:00 a 2:00 pm

New for 2022, Exposure will be collaborating with Los Angeles based photo-zine publisher Hamburger Eyes on creating an exhibition and photo-zine reading space. Through an extensive display of black and white photographs that have been selected and curated by Hamburger Eyes’s Ray Potes, the exhibition captures both the unseen and iconic moments of everyday life. Local photo-zine makers will also be invited to participate in the reading space at Contemporary Calgary to celebrate the diversity of Alberta’s local zinesters.

Exposure will bring an exciting city-wide public exhibition to its audiences in Calgary. In partnership with Pattison Outdoors, Exposure Billboard will show the work of 31 international and local artists and photographers via digital billboards located throughout the city. Photographs will be hosted in three different locations for a three-week duration. Exposure continues to provide innovative ways for Calgarians to engage with the arts.