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The World Photography Day brings together people who share a passion to capture moments and ideas and show the world how it looks like. Like historians, photographers, too, document the present for future generations to understand the past.

Fantasia’s 25th Edition Announces First Wave of New Programming! The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition. Set again to take place as a virtual event accessible to audiences across Canada. The festival will run from August 5 – 25, 2021. It will also include scheduled screenings and premieres, panels, and workshops. Films will once again be hosted on the leading-edge platform created by Festival Scope and Shift7...

In New York’s Parks, Images That Make Us Long for Connection Somber yet serene, Widline Cadet’s black-and-white portraits carry the sensation of familial intimacy. Portfolios - April 16, 2021 I happened to be reading Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse (1977) when these photographs by Widline Cadet landed in my in-box. Although, Cadet’s photographs might have a more likely kinship with Barthes’s Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980), his highly personal study, in whi...

April 07, 2021 • Domenick Ammirati on Taylor Swift’s rerecording project Taylor Swift performs during the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry on September 16, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: ACMA2020/Getty Images for ACM. SPRING IS IN THE AIR, and with it the buzz of a ne...

Photography bears an overwhelming burden: as the medium of memory par excellence, time and loss are inseparable elements from its very nature. The photographic image brings with it the nostalgia for something that has been and is no longer. “What the Photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the Photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially,” wrote Roland Barthes in his renowned essay, Camera Lucida (1980). No matter how many steps forwar...

Ipoh-based artist/researcher Dr Kamal Sabran (left) will present his The Healing Art Project (Dec 18,9pm) online session at the IIAF Pre-Festival 2021. Photo: Kamal Sabran The pandemic might have wiped out the plans for this year’s Ipoh International Art Festival (IIAF). No arts takeover of the Perak state capital, no weekend stream of visitors from other states making a trip to this well-curated festival series, which received positive reviews and an extension last year. But the show has to ...