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The recent discovery of photographs made in 1969 by then future filmmaker Yurij Luhovy impelled Michel Campeau to revisit memories from when he was twenty years old. From today’s perspective, he describes the path that led him into the world of photography.

In Goose Village, Marisa Portolese unearths a Montreal neighbourhood that no longer exists, reconstructing a family story in images, based on exploration of archives and oral histories. Read Michel Hardy-Vallée’s thoughts about her work here.

Moyra Davey and the canons of photography – it’s a long story, which continues with The Shabbiness of Beauty. Here, Davey combines her vision with Peter Hujar’s. Laurie Milner discovers what is distinct about each of their worlds. Read her review here.


Mines – their depth and operations – are at the heart of Louie Palu’s emblematic series Cage Call, created between 1991 and 2003. The Image Centre recovered Palu’s photographs from oblivion for an exhibition, reviewed here by Siobhan Angus.

This issue’s dossier features portfolios by Éric Tabuchi/Nelly Monnier, Suzanne Lafont and Bertrand Carrière. Ciel variable 125 – AGGLOMERATIONS is also available on our online store.

To wrap up the year, we offer a look back at the Rencontres de la photogrpahie d’Arles. Read about what caught contributor Alain Depocas’s eye.

Ruth Kaplan focused her interest on the last kilometres leading to the border crossing at Roxham, where a nexus of ephemeral interactions emerge between migrants, volunteers, taxi drivers and police officers to prepare the last passage. Sophie Mangano introduces us to this work.

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Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler — Charles Guilbert

Myriam Jacob-Allard, T’envoler — Charles Guilbert

March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Ansley West Rivers — Ariane Noël de Tilly

Ansley West Rivers — Ariane Noël de Tilly

March 22, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — This article was originally published only in French. You can read it by switching over to the French version of this page.

Martin Bureau. Borders and Walls — Sophie Bertrand

Martin Bureau. Borders and Walls — Sophie Bertrand

March 7, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — Par Sophie Bertrand. “The number of walls has tripled since the Cold War, and it has kept growing since 2001; it now consists of almost 30,000 km of armed borders.”1 This observation, made in 2013 by the researchers of the Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques at the Université du Québec à Montréal, during a conference on issues around walled borders, conveys much more than a malaise inherited from history…

CONTACT 2019. Violence — Jill Glessing

CONTACT 2019. Violence — Jill Glessing

February 28, 2023 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — By Jill Glessing. Violence runs through our lives, experienced directly or through media representations. We are subject to its power to varying degrees depending on our geographical location, race, class, gender, and access to high-speed internet. We are well acquainted with the variety of ways that humans inflict harm – whether physical, social, or psychological – upon one another…

About the Face: The Photographs of Dave Heath — Pierre Dessureault

About the Face: The Photographs of Dave Heath — Pierre Dessureault

February 13, 2024 [originally published in CV113 in Fall 2019] — By Pierre Dessureault. In a body of work accumulated over more than sixty years, Dave Heath (1931–2016), a Canadian photographer born in the United States, challenged the qualities of the photographic medium and its techniques. He constantly probed, through images, Montaigne’s dictum that “every man carries the entire form of the human condition.”1

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