Lonsdale Gallery's FIRST EVER online exhibition! Check out Salonsdale: Rebel Lens - the gallery's Feature Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival @contactphoto. . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Discover over 200 experimental photographs by 48 talented artists and become entranced by the rich and engaging photographic practices taking place across the globe today. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This exhibition surveys the present socio-cultural landscape, and encourages a dialogue regarding the future of experimental photography in contemporary art.. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Artist Spotlight 🔍: Shelagh Howard's "In Camera" series is inspired by the use of the phrase as a legal term, meaning "in private." By working with long and the nude figure, Howard explores the construction of the self, involving gendered beauty, body image issues, vulnerability, isolation and acceptance.⠀
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Howard’s use of long exposures create a painterly effect and explore similarities and differences, human inter-connection, experiences and moments, while maintaining cognizant perspective of past memories and experiences. ⠀
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"My recent work with the male figure aims to explore a rarely seen perspective, moving away from traditional masculinization, eroticism or toxicity, and towards a deeper position of empathy, vulnerability and understanding. ⠀
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I hope that my images lead the viewer to look beyond what is culturally prescribed, and to instead see the universal truths that we all carry within us, wrapped in our flesh but never truly concealed by it."⠀