World Pinhole Day

On April 24 f/action members embarked on Winnipeg's Exchange District for some much overdue gallery hopping, which included Nathalie Daoust's controversial 'Frozen In Time, Switzerland' at Ace Art gallery, Susy Oliveira's inspiring 'Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin round!' at Platform gallery, and a very special camera obscura installation created by Andrew Milne and Sarah Anne Johnson housed temporarily in the lobby of 286 McDermot ave. The life sized camera obscura was created for World Pinhole Day which took place on April 25, 2010. It was pitch black when we first walked through the doors but once our eyes adjusted we were introduced to the magic. Reflecting on all the walls and floor space were the surrounding buildings outside. "A camera obscura (Latin for "dark room") projects an image from the outside onto a flat surface inside, through a pinhole. The external scene is reproduced, upside-down, with color and perspective preserved." We spent a good 30 minutes in there reveling at the wonder of it all. Shown below are some long exposures of our visit along with some shots from Susy Oliveira's exhibit at Platform Gallery.






Posted by Ailsa Dyson

Solo Exhibition at Platform!

If you find yourself in the Exchange District over the next three weeks, please step into the lobby of the Artspace building and check out a mini solo exhibition that I have mounted there right now!

The Artspace building is located at 425-100 Arthur Street in Winnipeg. It is the huge character building that directly overlooks Old Market Square... it also has huge hollywood-style letters spelling A R T S P A C E on the roof. Basically, it's hard to miss if you're in the area.

The space where my series is showing is called the "P121" of Platform Centre For Photographic & Digital Arts. It is a wall where members of the gallery can show works that are finished, in progress, or anything that Platform deems is "wall-worthy"! I would like to thank Platform for giving me the opportunity to use the space - it is so great to see your work (finished or not) up in a public place! For more information on Platform, visit: http://www.platformgallery.org/

The work that I am showing is currently under the working title "Plastic Series" and is the initial phase of the project. This is an ongoing project during which I intend to carry through all four seasons and travel to more locations within Manitoba to complete. A few months ago, I blogged a few of the "winter plastic" images I created on a very cold day. With this exhibit, you can pretend it's spring again...

Posted by f/action member, Dallas Ludwick