Elisha Lozares
Calgary, Alberta
ARTIST BIO
Elisha Lozares (she/her) is a Filipino-Canadian photographer based in Calgary, Alberta. A graduate of the Alberta University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Design in Photography, Elisha leads her own photography business where she avidly photographs a range of people, places and things through her lens. Her work in portraiture and real estate photography has strengthened her creative eye, and deepened her appreciation of how people interact with their environments. Across all her work, Elisha aims to capture genuine emotion and human connection. While her client based photography celebrates bright, positive expression, her personal projects often turn to the quiet, observant and reflective aspects of her own inner world and nature. These projects tend to embrace what excites her inner child, drawing inspiration from bold colour palettes, expressive muses, and nostalgic elements of art, design, and film grain. Documenting Asian narratives, culture, and identity through playful and natural lenses are a primary creative focus on Elisha’s future projects.
PROJECT STATEMENT
I said I wouldn’t cry in Japan observes the emotional duality of beauty and distress, wonder and solitude. A visual reflection created from the experience of a long awaited trip while navigating sorrow and grief, the series explores how photography becomes both a grounding ritual and a powerful form of emotional processing. Rather than focusing on landmarks or spectacle as a tourist usually would, these images dwell in the quiet textures and murmurs of the everyday; the cast of afternoon light on train seats, the rhythm of passing figures, the stillness between movements. Each frame reflects a search for comfort in the ordinary, finding familiarity within unfamiliar spaces. This body of work is not a travel series but a quiet self-portrait built through observation and introspection. Through mindful attention, the photographs transform fleeting encounters into meditations on presence, privacy, and perception. What begins as an act of seeing evolves into a language of healing. Where the art of noticing itself becomes an intimate form of connection between emotion and environment.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that the Exposure Photography Festival is situated on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. The traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh’kins’tsis”, which we now call the City of Calgary. This is the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. It is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. We honour and acknowledge all Nations, who live, work and play in Moh’kins’tsis, help steward this land, and honour and celebrate this territory.