Family photography in “The Clarion” newspaper (1946-56)

by Gabby | Aug 3, 2016 | Photography, Research, Writing

I’ve been increasingly trying to find ways to share parts of my academic research in progress, in part to try to demystify work in photographic archives, in part to keep myself accountable to typing up and beginning to analyze the research I’m doing as I...

“Analogical Thinking”: on photography in the work of Meryl McMaster

by Gabby | May 19, 2016 | Exhibition Essays

Meryl McMaster’s performance-based photographic works have been on my mind for several years, but it’s only recently—in an essay for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s catalogue for the exhibition, “In Another Place, And Here,” and now...

“Flood of Rights” symposium reviewed in Journal of Visual Culture

by Gabby | Aug 31, 2014 | Photography

Last fall, I was fortunate to be able to attend “The Flood of Rights,” a conference in Arles, France, organized by Thomas Keenan, Suhail Malik and Tirdad Zolghadr that aimed to address “how technologies of image-capture and the channels of...

No Looking with cheyanne turions and Annie MacDonell at SBC Gallery, Montreal, April 12

by Gabby | Apr 7, 2014 | Photography

This weekend, No Looking After the Internet meets in Montreal as part of cheyanne turions’s “A Problem So Big It Needs Other People,” an exhibition about sovereignty as a form of negotiation at Montreal’s SBC Gallery. Co-facilitated with...

Feature on Jessica Eaton in Canadian Art magazine

by Gabby | Dec 15, 2012 | Photography, Writing

This past summer, I had the pleasure of visiting with Jessica Eaton in her studio in Montreal for a feature article for Canadian Art magazine. I’ve been following Eaton’s work for a long time, and have always been fascinated and perplexed (in a good way)...