by Gabby | Sep 16, 2017 | Photography, Research
When Canada’s first citizenship laws came into effect in 1947, photography had already been representing this mode of belonging in the country for more than 50 years. Citizen Subjects: photography, race and belonging in Canada explores this unique context that allowed...
by Gabby | Aug 8, 2016 | Photography, Research
Throughout the month of June, I had the pleasure of working in the Black Star agency’s collection at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) through their Elaine Ling Fellowship. During that time, I looked through more than 3,300 photographs in the collection, as part of...
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...
by Gabby | Nov 17, 2015 | Photography
After many months of research—spent either slack-jawed in awe or infuriated over catalogue essays, image captions and formulaic exhibition reviews—and writing and editing, my first effort at unpacking Richard Mosse’s photographic work in the Democratic Republic...
by Gabby | Jul 15, 2015 | Photography, Reviews
I’ve been working on an essay about Richard Mosse’s The Enclave (2013) for the past few months, reading every review, interview and essay I can get my hands on. And, in a way I have never before experienced when researching a contemporary artwork, there is...
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