Border Crossings Magazine

Lonely in (Architectural) Space

Meeka Walsh

When a dear friend gives you the gift of a book and says this is one of my favourites, you go directly to your desk and read it, which I did. The book, Differences: Topographies...

Purposeful History: Stan Douglas

Vancouver photographer and filmaker Stan Douglas has an exacting view of history. In previous works, he has articulated his interest in what he calls "re-purposing history," a process through which he subjects events to a...

Uncovering the Many Faces of Iran: Sanaz Mazinani

"I’m trying to pose informative questions," says Sanaz Mazinani about her body of work called, "Iran Revisited." Since 1999 the Toronto-based photographer has been returning to her birthplace every two years with the idea...

Deus Ex Filmica: The Films of Robert Frank

Robert Enright

In Fire in the East, the compelling 1986 documentary portrait about the life and art of Robert Frank, there are a number of occasions when the photographer-turned-filmmaker reflects on the nature of his achievement. “I...

Attentive Contradictions: The Photographic World of Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Introduction by Robert Enright, Interview by Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh

In 2003 Philip-Lorca diCorcia published A Storybook Life, a beautifully printed collection of 76 photographs taken in eight countries over 21 years. As he remarks in the following interview, there is a clue in the...

Secret Sharer: An Interview with Raymonde April

Robert Enright

In 1999 Montreal photographer Raymonde April completed a project that integrated art and architecture called “Le Monde des Images.” Both in its title and methodology, it could easily describe the whole of her omnivorous practice....

A Certain Kind of Distance: Picturing the Art of Moyra Davey

Meeka Walsh

I picked up Long Life Cool White because the book was beautiful and I like the topic: photographs and essays. My sustained interest in looking at photographs is taken as politeness when the subject is...

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Julia Dault

Alison Gillmor

Robert Epp

James D Campbell

Gary Michael Dault

Gary Michael Dault

Christopher Olson

I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions by Rafael Goldchain

Richard Holden

I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions, a reconstructed family album created by Toronto-based artist Rafael Goldchain, is one of the most multi-layered, engaging, photographic books I have come across in along time....

Rebecca Belmore

Robin Laurence

Rebecca Belmore’s mid-career survey at the Vancouver Art Gallery highlighted the connection between her performance practice and her work across other disciplines, including sculpture, installation, video and photography. Common to all Belmore’s work is seeing...

Robert Labossiere

Nigel Beale

Deborah Margo

Katie Bethune-Leamen

Sigrid Dahle

Contamination

Photographs by Arnaud Maggs

My most recent work, “Contamination,” shows pages of a water-damaged ledger from the 1905 Yukon Gold Rush. The factual transactions recorded in the book have been bypassed in favour of showing a series of...

Photographs by Meggan Gould