Stephen Waddell, "Mouchette, Queen’s Chamber," 2015
gelatin silver print. (courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery)
An exhibition by Vancouver-based photographer Stephen Waddell, winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Award, opens Sept. 16 at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto.
The exhibition, which runs to Nov. 28, highlights Waddell's experiments with photographic techniques and processes, and brings into focus his careful attention to scale and light.
Waddell’s elegiac images, which include colour street compositions of workers and pedestrians, along with more recent black-and-white photographs of caves and grottos, reveal a painterly sensibility, as well as an uncanny theatricality.
In a newly created video, Waddell revisits his earliest experiments with film in the late 1990s with a silent, non-narrative arrangement of Super-8 films that focuses on one of his central motifs: figures on the street seen walking from behind.
Waddell will give an online lecture on Sept. 30.
Two concurrent shows are also running.
Mohamed Bourouissa's Horse Day is the culmination of an eight-month collaboration between Algerian/French artist Mohamed Bourouissa and young Black horsemen in a non-profit equestrian society in an impoverished Philadelphia neighbourhood.
And Ethan Murphy's Front & Back, on view until Oct. 17, explores the relationship between photography and loss through deteriorating colour prints that reveal glimpses of a deceased loved one.
Visit here ryersonimagecentre.ca/events for details.
Source: Ryerson Image Centre