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Booooooom 2024 Photo Awards!
Street Photography Category Winner: Vendedora de Globos
With great excitement, we present the winners of the 2024 Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format! This year our open call for submissions drew an extraordinary response, making the selection process extremely challenging but also immensely satisfying. Thank you to every single person who submitted work—your talent and creativity continue to delight and inspire us every year.
It is our honour to announce the five winners, each representing a distinct category: PORTRAIT, NATURE, COLOUR, STREET, FASHION... (continue reading)
Fragile Residue - Contact Photography Festival
The Plumb (1655 Dufferin St)
April 17 - May 18
Opening: April 17 (6-9pm)
Fragile Residue presents the work of Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Delali Cofie, and Amara King. Within photographic practices often taking a non-traditional approach, these artists' utilization of various media and visual devices - and their invocation of archives, both literal and figurative - speaks to the instability of memory, the power of disrupting the historical record, and the mercurial nature of the concept of "home." ... (continue reading)
Prolonged: Translating a Distance
Gallery 44 (401 Richmond)
Production Gallery (Lower Floor)
April 4 - July 5
Prolonged: Translating a Distance examines the fluidity of memory through abstraction, exploring and offering an alternate way to consider stories of displacement.... Drawing from his immigrant experience, Ernesto Cabral de Luna explores themes of identity and representation through the fleeting nature of memory that constructs a mobile, personal and ephemeral archive fundamental to diasporic identities... (continue reading)
LENSCRATCH Feature & Interview
by Daniel George
March 29, 2025
Daniel George: What prompted you to create Mining for Some Sort of Continuity? Tell us how it all began.
Ernesto Cabral de Luna: This series originated as my culminating thesis project for my BFA in Photography at OCAD University. The catalyst was my interest in 20th-century Mexican Exvotos—devotional paintings on metal sheets used by an illiterate population to express gratitude for divine intervention. Growing up with Exvotos in my household, I was drawn to the way materiality shaped their narratives: rust bleeding through paint, flaking surfaces revealing metal, and bent corners marking the passage of time. Initially, I experimented with printing family photographs onto corroded metal, fascinated by the rich patinas of oxidized copper. Over time, I expanded my material exploration to include corrugated metal and shards of colored glass—elements inspired by childhood memories of makeshift security barriers in Mexico, where broken glass from bottles was embedded into walls as an ad-hoc form of barbed wire... (continue reading )
NADA Curated: As it Unfolds
Online Exhibition a newartdealers.org
March 14 - April 18, 2025
As It Unfolds explores human transformation as a continuous and evolving process shaped by the interplay of time, memory, and experience. This online exhibition invites artists from all disciplines to contribute works that examine how moments of becoming —whether personal, collective, or imagined—unfold and take shape. Rather than viewing becoming as a fixed state or linear progression, the exhibition highlights its cyclical and iterative nature. Time acts as both subject and medium, revealing the intricate connections between past, present, and future. Artists are encouraged to explore how their work reflects the tension between permanence and impermanence, addressing themes such as layered histories, speculative futures, and recurring patterns of change... (continue reading)
Latest News: CBC Interview for "My Story is You" Photo Project for Soulpepper's run of Kim's Convenience
CBC Toronto Metro Morning Interview
FRICTION
Western University's tba Journal of art, media, & visual culture
The static of friction is palpable; it shocks us daily. Below us, the lithosphere steadily pushes against itself in a process of subduction, and above ground a multiplicity of narratives electrifies the air through various frictions. Classically, friction has been associated with chaos or conflict, as a negative impact of two or more forces making contact with one another. Tba’s mandate since its inception has been to welcome experimentation in the works of emerging scholars and artists, and our past contributors have found space to reimagine what a scholarly journal might look like, creating various frictions as the visual and sensorial qualities of art collide with the boundaries of the academic framework. Our issue this year is no different, featuring artists, writers, and academics reflexively analyzing their work through research-creation, poetry, and material encounters, even pushing back against the structure of the article itself through experimental footnotes and sound. In our 2025 issue, we celebrate creative practices and scholarly writing born from experimentation and risk, reimagining friction as a force that can simultaneously describe conflict, pain, and grief, and also the creative, curious, and joyful...(continue reading)
NEW BLOG POST!
La Sirena, 2024
In this artwork, various archival images are transferred onto a corroded piece of copper, presenting three figures on a beach: a man drinking a beer, another lying on the sand, and a woman walking towards them. Each figure is drawn from separate photographs taken by my mother at different beaches throughout her youth... (click here to read more)
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Latest Project: Mining for Some Sort of Continuity, 2024
