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Jason McCrea                                                                                                     Jason McCrea’s Website Jason McCrea on Instagram ..read more

For our second annual Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Shadows, Colour, Nature. Now it is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Portrait category, Wilhelm Philipp. Wilhelm Philipp is a self-taught photographer from Australia. He uses his camera to highlight everyday subjects and specifically explore the Australian suburban identity that he feels is too often overlooked or forgotten about. We want to give a massive shoutout to Format for supporting the awards this year. Format is an online portf ..read more

Jer Dee                                         Jer Dee’s Website Jer Dee on Instagram ..read more

Adrian Kay Wong                                 Adrian Kay Wong’s Website Adrian Kay Wong on Instagram ..read more

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Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir Artist Bio:Karen Ösp Pálsdóttir (b.1992) received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2013. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries in New York, Baltimore, Washington DC, Boston, Reykjavík, London, Barcelona, and Paris. Karen’s paintings have been featured in various publications such as New American Paintings, Create! Magazine, Tibia Magazine, SFMOMA, Hyperallergic, and El País. Pálsdóttir´s work explores various subjects through a Cobalt Blue lens in her most recent monochromatic oil paintings. Statement: Inspired by the delicate interp ..read more

Caitlyn Doran                                                                                                                                     Caitlyn Doran’s Website Caitlyn Doran on Instagram ..read more

Edmonton-based artist Gabriel Esteban Molina was the artist selected from our Capture Public Art Open Call this year! Thanks again to everyone who submitted. Gabriel’s images will be installed at the King Edward Canada Line Train Station, here in Vancouver, as part of Capture 2024. The images on display are from Gabriel’s series “The Great Divide” which draws on the connection between photography and nostalgia. Using various landscape and natural imagery taken by Gabriel over the course of his life, the works is meant to highlight the precarity of digital media as a tool of preservation. I had ..read more

A collaborative exhibition by artists Lauren YS and Makoto Chi. “5 Poisons” features 28 pieces ranging from small works on paper to large-scale paintings in acrylic as well as a site-specific mural installation. Both drawing inspiration from their mixed-race East Asian heritages, the collection immerses viewers into the artists’ explorations of identity. The title of this show refers to an ancient Chinese medicinal concept representing five poisonous animals: the centipede, scorpion, frog, snake, and spider. “Mid-year is said to be an inauspicious time, as these poisonous animals emerge f ..read more