Night Visions – Contact Photography Festival 2017
UPDATE: blogTO has featured “Night Vision” as one of the 20 must-see exhibits of the Contact Photo Festival — check out the full list here: http://www.blogto.com/arts/2017/04/contact-photography-festival-toronto-2017/
Coolearth Architecture is pleased to once again take part in the annual Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, which runs throughout the month of May. This year we are featuring the photography of Richard Kuzniak. Richard is a Toronto native, a retired teacher of mathematics and physics at Upper Canada College, who has had a lifelong passion for photography. The exhibit features samples of his recent work, Night Vision.
From his introduction:
I like to photograph at night. It’s calm, quiet, the chaos of the day has subsided, and the human impingement is at a minimum. Structures take on a different aspect and the mood is more circumspect. The variety of illumination whether street lamp, fluorescent, neon, or sodium vapour endows a unique glow to even the most common scenes and objects. The longer exposures necessary emphasize these ambient colours in a way that a casual glance cannot. At night there is an artist’s palette of subjects that, reduced to their essence, are more compelling than their congested, banal appearance in the light of day. Parking lots, laneways, construction and storage yards, industrial sites, parks, businesses closed for the night, all take on a new persona, transformed by the darkness. Often the photographs display a painterly quality, emphasizing colour and form.
You can check out event page here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/night-vision-tickets-29746892757
The exhibit runs May 1 – May 30. The official opening is on Saturday May 6, 6-9 P.M.