Growing up in the extremely multicultural city of Toronto, my friends, family members, and collaborators invariably represent a diverse group of people. The network of artists I draw inspiration from consist of people with highly varying lived experiences informing their views and, as a result, my own. Many people in my circle have, at some point, also intersected with the … [Read more...]
Jacques Oulé: Across time, into the sublime.
Jacques Oulé was born in France in 1958, he grew up in Aix en Provence, lived in Paris before moving to Toronto in 1981. He has pursued an interest in photography for many years, questioning its content and his position in it, and has immersed himself with its range of thecnique and possibilities. As a visual artist Jacques Oulé use the camera as a tool to look deeply and … [Read more...]
(Rediscover) Voice In A Landscape
When I began taking landscape photographs my primary interest was in capturing the scenery in front of the lens. After all, isn’t that what it’s all about? After several years I realised that few of the photographs I took really excited me and so I began to explore what was missing in either my technique or composition. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with my images, … [Read more...]
Street Photography: Where does the street begin and end? Part 1.
Santiago Chile The history of the pathway, the street, and the scenes they often lead to is a storied one. The trail is not so much a physical thing as an ephemeral one, a place in our collective imagination. Picture if you will, the most populated space in your town or city, it's energy, its culture. Picture the roads leading there, the square or congregating spaces. Where … [Read more...]
Embracing The Strange
A macro still from a video I directed using LED lighting Synthetics and Tertiary colors generate a buzz Plato wrote in one of his dialogues with Socrates: ‘He who has been instructed thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession , when he comes to the end will suddenly perceive a nature of wondrous beauty ……beauty … [Read more...]
