Canadian Photography Institute

At a time when outdoor portraiture was far less common, Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend enjoyed photographing members of his family outside, like his two children blowing bubbles in a garden.

Employing an unexpected technique, Spring Hurlbut spreads thin layers of human or animal ash across a black surface, then photographs the resulting composition.

Eriko Kimura, curator of Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography, shares stories behind a selection of photographs from the exhibition, from a present-day perspective.