Xaviera Simmons, “Freedom is Not Guaranteed,” 2018, East Hastings Billboard, Vancouver (photo courtesy of the artist, David Castillo Gallery, and For Freedoms)
From April 1 through to April 30...and beyond, the Capture Photography Festival is taking over Vancouver, with events, talks, art exhibitions, public art showings and more across the city.
Highlights include:
- The Canada Line Public Art Project, which features lens-based at at Canada Line stations throughout Greater Vancouver. “This year’s project stretches across eight locations, from Waterfront to Richmond-Brighouse Station, and includes contributions from Capture and other art organizations, including Booooooom, the Contemporary Art Gallery, CONTACT Photography Festival, and Richmond Art Gallery,” according to the Capture team.
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion, is on view at The Polygon Gallery through May 25, 2025, is a major survey of the late British-Nigerian artist, whose photography explored themes that include same-sex, multiracial love seen through a Yoruba spiritual lens. “Often created in collaboration with his partner Alex Hirst (1951–92), Fani-Kayode’s photographs treat romantic love with spiritual reverence, translating the emotional intensity of same-sex, multiracial desire into richly evocative symbolic language. Today, his art remains a potent source of inspiration, presciently anticipating contemporary photographic approaches to identity, sexuality, and race,” according to Capture.
- The Emily Carr University of Art + Design's student exhibition Ghost Images: Photography and Trace, on view through April 23 and is curated by Birthe Piontek, associate professor of Photography and Assistant Dean of Photography, Audain Faculty of Art, ECU.
Source: Capture Photography Festival
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