Monday, October 29, 2012

Eye Level - Photos by Children

Exhibition view Exposure Gallery

A unique approach: Photographs by children (from toddler to teenager)! Exposure Gallery shows very interesting photos by kids who share their view of the world. The photos are impressing in their originality in terms of perspective and subject matter. Children are also unhindered by notions of composition and, so, their photographs often express directly how they perceive their world.


Exhibition view Exposure Gallery

Exhibition view Exposure Gallery

Facts:

Eye Level
Exposure Gallery
October 4 -30, 2013
http://www.exposuregallery.info/eye-level-show/

Exhibition view Exposure Gallery

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

“Ascension” By Terry SanCartier

"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa


Geometric shapes, sharp lines, unusual views: Photographs by Ottawa photographer Terry SanCartier – like the seemingly never ending spiral staircase inspired by nature in Barcelona – are rather representation than documentation. That's why they perfectly correspond to the Festival X’s theme of “Otherwise Than Seeing: Photograph, Image, Representation”.





Today is the last day to visit the exhibition at Exposure Gallery that shows places all over the world that had inspired the photographer.


"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa


Some of them remind me at the German movement of the 1920s “Neues Sehen” (New Vision), with their unexpected framings and the use of high and low camera angles. Like the artist says: “At first glance, photographs from this exhibit may suggest the obvious but on closer enquiry, another interpretation may be evident. [...] Can the viewer grasp the unseen?



"Ascension", Exhibition view, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa
  
Facts: 
Ascension By Terry SanCartier
Exposure Gallery
June 28 to October 2, 2012
http://www.exposuregallery.info/exhibitions/terry-sancartier/

  
Regarding the Barcelona photographs on the right side: "Does the staircase lead to the upper floors of a museum and thus transport one to a place of higher learning?" asks Terry.