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...]
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...]
What is Equivalence ?
A change of perspective is a change in state. Jean Piaget reminds us that, “What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” The idea of equivalence in photography is richly rooted in a time when photography was beginning to discover its own nature and continues to be a powerful force for discovering our own nature, which is greater than we … [Read more...]
TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING: An Interview with Geoffrey James
Lethbridge, Alberta It’s not every photographer that can claim to have officially been named ‘Photo Laureate’ of a major city, or to have one of their first ever professional photographs immortalized on a postage stamp, but Toronto photographer Geoffrey James can, on both counts. My sister, who now makes her living as a wedding and portrait photographer, was James’ lab … [Read more...]
Between Heaven and Here with Osheen Harruthoonyan
Photography has long opened its doors to abstraction, impressionism, and any number of imported refinements from other mediums. It has, in turn, enhanced and stimulated other mediums, such as painting and even music. The captured image; both still and moving, has continued to penetrate our culture and psychology in ways with which we can hardly keep up. We dream of pictures … [Read more...]
