Capture x ECUAD: 'Ghost Images: Photography and Trace' Artist Talk

Please join us for a talk highlighting artists from Ghost Images: Photography and Trace, an exhibition developed collaboratively with Capture Photography Festival and Emily Carr University of Art + Design featuring students from the undergraduate photography program.

Participating students in the talk include:

Laura Ayres

Sophie-Jane Brindle

Ashley Cheng

Glory Munroe

Sunsun Liu

Tannaz Saatchi

Eknoor Thind

Parumveer Walia

The artworks in Ghost Images speak to the range of photography’s ability to be permanent and impermanent simultaneously. They make us think of images as songs stuck in our heads that we can’t escape, or as scars that altered our bodies and now have become part of us, while addressing the fact that images are also fleeting. They only momentarily exist at the tips of our fingers but are gone the next second, updated by an algorithm that, like an invisible spectre, follows us and shows us what we desire.

Curated by Birthe Piontek, Assistant Professor of Photography, Audain Faculty of Art, Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Capture x Emily Carr is a partnership between Capture Photography Festival and the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

Image credit:
Laura Ayres, Within Sight, Out of Reach (detail), 2024, transparency in view-master reel and mixed media, 12.7 x 7.62 x 9.53 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

This event is free. If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.