FEBRUARY 1-28 2021
In partnership with Photoville, chinook blast and Tourism calgary, Exposure Photography Festival will bring the ninth edition of The photoville FENCE to Calgary’s olympic plaza.
The FENCE, Olympic Plaza by Jeff Yee
The Photoville FENCE is a year-round public photography project exhibited in major parks and downtowns across North America. Featuring over 90 photographers annually, the exhibition brings compelling visual stories into the public realm, and to a wide and diverse audience.
The ninth edition will be displayed in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Calgary, Denver, Durham, Houston, Metro (Fargo, W. Fargo and Moorhead), New Orleans, Sarasota, Seattle and Winchester!
Consistently attracting exceptional work by a diverse pool of photographers, the Photoville FENCE spotlights a wide range of photographic and lens-based stories. By exploring the universal themes of People, Streets, Play, Creatures, Home, Food, and Nature, the exhibition elevates our understanding of the world-at-large and issues close to home.
exhibiting artists
This ninth edition open space, year-round showcase will highlight more than 90 visual artists. Photo series include Lares, by Luca Rotondo, an ongoing project about one's relationship with the death of pets, Stickball: An Urban Pastime, Lauren Welles series showcasing the generational evolution of Stickball in the Bronx and East Harlem, Ghosts of Segregation by Richard Frishman photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape—often hidden in plain sight behind a veil of banality, Julia Fullerton-Batten’s Looking out from Within documents the new daily existence of COVID-19, The Aesthetics of Transformation: Highway (re)Construction, Steven Benson’s long-term project that explores the activities and artifacts associated with the process of transforming the landscape by an enormous infrastructure project, Ben'n Yalhalhj - I'm from Yalalag by Citlali Fabian, a documentation of Yalalteca culture—the Zapotec people originally from the Sierra Juarez in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, now spread all around Mexico and Los Angeles.
JURORS CHOICE WINNER -Kennedi Carter
In addition to selecting the featured artists, the Photoville FENCE jury also selected a Juror’s choice winner Kennedi Carter, who receives a $5,000 project development cash grant, a solo exhibition at Photoville 2020, and yearlong mentorship with the Photoville team. Her series Flex, explores ideas of Blackness related to wealth, power, respect, and belonging. The series is currently on view as a part of the Photoville Festival 2020.
Kennedi Carter
Kennedi Carter
WESTERN CANADIAN EDITION
We are delighted to announce the seven photographers selected for the 2021 Exposure Photography Festival Western Canadian Edition exhibition. This exhibition will be presented as part of The Photoville FENCE. The exhibiting artists are Amanda Annand, Amber Bracken, Callan Field, Kathryn Mussallem, Nathan Jones, Ryan Koopmans and Tracey Tomtene.
Amanda Annand
Amber Bracken
Callan Field
Kathryn Mussallem
Nathan Jones
Ryan Koopmans
Tracey Tomtene
About Photoville
Photoville is a New York-based nonprofit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography and visual storytelling by producing a free annual festival, amplifying impactful narratives, and connecting artists to a wide global audience by activating accessible public spaces via large scale exhibitions. Proudly devoted to cultivating strategic partnerships and creative collaborations with community spirit, Photoville approaches its mission of cultivating a wide, diverse audience for powerful photographic narratives by working closely with visual artists, city agencies, nonprofit organizations and educators worldwide to create new exhibition and public art opportunities that showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography.