The Exposure portfolio walk is the perfect opportunity to share work with fellow photographers and industry professionals in a casual setting. Join us for an evening of conversation and exchange. See amazing photography and meet the artists!

This event will take place after the Exposure 2023 Portfolio Review.

Advanced registration is required for photographers wishing to share their portfolios, so please use the following Portfolio Walk Registration Form (for Photographers) to secure your space. Limited space is available and registrations will be taken on a first come first serve basis. DEADLINE TO REGISTER: 15 February, midnight MT

Registration is not required for those who want to attend the event to see the work of the participating photographers.

This event location is wheelchair accessible.

If you have any questions about this event, please email Beth Kane, Beth@exposurephotofest.com

The Exposure Portfolio Review offers a unique opportunity to present your work to some of the most influential leading professionals in photography worldwide —from curators to practitioners, editors to educators. Reviewers will offer valuable feedback on your work and guidance for your career. 

For more information about this event, please see Exposure Portfolio Review - Event Information.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Dirty Laundry, The Second Load, Show #2 runs between Feb 15-28, featuring artists Felipe Jasso, Greg Gerla, Joshua Bellamy. Come join us for an evening full of entertainment, opportunity to connect and network with the artists and community.

Advanced registration is required here: eventbrite.ca

COVID Requirements: We appreciate your support. If you are experiencing flu like symptoms, please stay home and get some rest

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

The Artist, Cathie Aalders-Taylor, will be available at the exhibition to talk about her images and answer questions.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Local zinesters are invited to share and swap their zines and connect with the local community.

If you make zines that include photography and/or are related to the photographic medium, art, collage, skateboarding, and/or mental health, come and hang with us! Zines can be works in progress and can be home printed (if printed, please bring multiples if you can!)

Arrive at noon when we’ll ‘share’ our zines via short self-introductions. At 1pm we’ll ‘swap’ our zines and connect with one another over drinks and snacks, provided by Exposure and TCS. If you’re a zine-fan but don’t create your own zines, please feel free to come to the event and hear from others about their work.

This event is Co-Hosted by the Exposure Photography Festival and The Camera Store with Supporting Partners AUArts Hear/d Arts Residency.

This is a free event and advanced registration is required. Please use the following link to register for your zine creator or zine fan tickets: thecamerastore.com

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible.

Sean P Drysdale will be providing background context and information on his exhibition, "Time Frame", and how the project evolved.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Charismatic Lee Nordbye will be sharing his stories of adventures in the Rockies forming the enigmatic body of work in Sculpt.

No registration, no fee, drop-in event.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

The Artist, Cathie Aalders-Taylor, will be available at the exhibition to talk about her images and answer questions.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

What does it mean to be "here and now"? We are excited to celebrate a coming together of Wise Wood and Crescent Hight's talented and passionate youth photographers in a series of photographs representing how they interpret the theme.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Meet and Greet with the ‘Tremors’ artists, as well as artists exhibiting on other floors of cSpace.

This event is in conjunction with the openings of the other cSPACE exhibitions. Artists will be doing a group welcome at 5:30 on the 1st floor.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Official opening of Sean P Drysdale's photography exhibition, ‘Time Frame’, at cSpace 2nd Floor, in conjunction with other cSPACE exhibitions. Artists will be doing a group welcome at 5:30 on the 1st floor.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

The official opening of Dipankar Mukherjee’s exhibit ‘Crossing Boundaries - Finding the Moment’ in conjunction with other cSPACE exhibitions. Artists will be doing a group welcome at 5:30 on the 1st floor.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

The official opening of Heather Patterson's exhibit ‘Shadows and Light’, will be at cSpace Level 3, in conjunction with other cSpace exhibitions. Artists will be doing a group welcome at 5:30 on the 1st floor.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Dirty Laundry, The Second Load, Show #1 runs between Feb 1-14, featuring artists Kevin Stenhouse, Danielle Nicol, Boon Ong. Come join us for an evening full of entertainment, opportunity to connect and network with the artists and community.

Advanced registration is required here: eventbrite.ca

COVID Requirements: We appreciate your support. If you are experiencing flu like symptoms, please stay home and get some rest.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Join The Alberta Society of Artists for the opening of two Exhibitions; "The Artist's Lens: Manifesting the Hidden" - a group show of Alberta Artists, and "Voices of Abstraction" - a mixed show of photographic & oil abstract works by Barb Kreutter & Sharon Thompson.

Covid Requirement: Masks are welcomed, but not required at this time.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on these exhibitions, see Manifesting The Hidden & Voices Of Abstraction.

AUArts Photo 23 Open Call Opening Reception at AUArts Main Mall

Cash bar & snacks available.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Exhibiting Artist Lee Nordbye will be in attendance for the opening reception to the show in which you can view bold stories of nature’s sculptures from the Rockies ...up close.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

AUArts 4th Year Photo Show - Mango
Opening Reception Location: AUArts Main Mall
Cash bar
Free snacks

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Join us at Contemporary Calgary, our Festival HQ, to help us launch the nineteenth edition of the Exposure Photography Festival!

We’ll celebrate the opening of the Exposure 2023 curated exhibitions, International Open Call, Emerging Photographers Showcase, Emerging Photographer of the Year: Raeann Cheung, as well as Exposure’s and The Magenta Foundation’s collaborative youth exhibition, Flash Forward Incubator Program.

At 7pm we’ll reveal the names of the recipients of the prestigious Exposure 2023 Awards: the Emerging Photographer Of The Year Award, the Emerging Photographer Merit Award, the TREX Southwest Emerging Photographer Award, the Shutter Hub Emerging Photographer Award, the Grain (UK) Emerging Photographer Award, and the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award.

This event is in collaboration with Contemporary Calgary’s FREE First Thursdays! Explore the galleries, join the YYC/LRT workshop, jump in The Film Lab's photo booth, connect with Antyx Community Arts Hip-Hop Club, enjoy thoughtfully crafted beverages by Sugar Water Bar, international cuisines by Healthy Baby and music by HOT SAUCE BOOGIE. 

This is a free event but advanced registration is required. Click here to join the party!

This is an all-ages event and the event location is wheelchair accessible. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

Penelope Stewart, Dianne Bos, Sarah Fuller, and Mary Anne Barkhouse discuss a range of alternative photographic processes, offering a variety of cultural perspectives and highlighting their passion for nuanced relationships between species and land.

Advanced registration is required here: whyte.org/events

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Please join the Whyte Museum in celebrating the official exhibition opening of "Redesigning Paradise" and “All Our Relations: Portraits From the Elders’ Gatherings” by Craig Richards.

Advanced registration is required here: whyte.org/events

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Annie MacDonell - The Beyond Within. Organized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in collaboration with the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Curated by Leila Timmins and Crystal Mowry.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

As part of Calgary’s Exposure Photography Festival the Exposure Studio Collective will explore ideas of community. Artists include Julya Hajnoczk, J. Ashley Nixon, Tyler Tanner, Santosh Korthiwada, Twinkle Banerjee and Cary Schatz.

Please arrive at the start time and meet us at Gallery #1 adjacent to the parking lot on the SE corner of Centre St. N and 7th Ave.

Access: Location is wheelchair accessible. Exhibition and event are child friendly. This event is hosted outdoors.

For more information on this exhibition, see here.

Join us Saturday February 26th from 7 - 10pm at Kaffee Klatsch for an opportunity to chat in person with Leslie Sweder about the creative research presented for "In The Dirt". Both the artist and an outstanding DJ will be in attendance. 

This event is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. 

For information on covid requirements, please see the following website - sweder.art

Join us for the closing reception of Excavation, a photography based installation, exhibition and collection of stories - a culmination of the work, research, and collaboration of the artists over their one-month residency.

This event is wheelchair accessible (with assistance that we can provide) and child friendly. 

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - sparrowartspace.com

This event has been cancelled.
Please see the online Curatorial Tour here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwMR-ck6O-I

Join us for an exhibition tour of Mino-Pimatisiwin: Reclaiming the "Good Life" with curator Autumn Whiteway.

This event is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. Please see GRAND staff for wheelchair entrance.

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - thegrandyyc.ca/covid19-policy

This event has been cancelled.

Join us for the Exhibition Closing of Mino-Pimatisiwin: Reclaiming the "Good Life".

This event is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. Please see GRAND staff for wheelchair entrance.

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - thegrandyyc.ca/covid19-policy

Closing Reception to take place at The GRAND or online, Covid dependent. For updates and details, please see thegrandyyc.ca/whats-on

Join Arto Djerdjerian for a talk on his photography process and art practice for our second Art Speaks of the season. Art Speaks is free to attend, thanks to ATB Branch for Arts and Culture! Ages 16+.

This event is wheelchair accessible. 

Limited capacity. Advanced registration is required - reddeermuseum.com/programs/artspeaks/the-art-of-photography-with-arto-djerdjerian/

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - reddeermuseum.com

The SAAG is pleased to host Emily Neufeld as she discusses Prairie Invasions: A Hymn, a solo exhibition of photographs and sculptures culminating from Neufeld’s exploration of abandoned farmhouses dotting the Canadian Prairies. 

This event is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. 

For more information visit saag.ca/events-programs

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - saag.ca

This event has been cancelled.
Please see the online Curatorial Tour here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwMR-ck6O-I

Join us for an exhibition tour of Mino-Pimatisiwin: Reclaiming the "Good Life" with curator Autumn Whiteway.

This event is wheelchair accessible and child friendly. Please see GRAND staff for wheelchair entrance.

For information on covid requirements, please see the venue’s website - thegrandyyc.ca/covid19-policy