Canadian Photography Institute Blog

When Platt D. Babbitt set up his commercial enterprise at Niagara Falls, photography had begun to play an increasing role in the development of natural resources and the promotion of tourism in Canada...

In Viewing Room, Angela Grauerholz (1952–) ventures into the National Gallery of Canada’s Study Room, photographing a row of grey upholstered chairs facing blank sheets of paper in various sizes, placed along...

Through his photographs, Sammy Baloji builds a rich and complex narrative exploring colonization, its history, and its continuing impact upon Congolese culture.

David McMillan first travelled to the Ukraine in October 1994 to photograph the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone—the area affected by nuclear radiation. Over 25 years, he has visited the site 22 times to document its...

Dianne Bos (1956–) is best known for photographs created with pinhole cameras — a device that involves, at its simplest, piercing a small hole, or aperture, into the front of a box.

Leonce Raphael Agbodjélou (1965–) is a Beninese photographer whose works abound in references to Africa, Benin and, more specifically, the history of Porto-Novo.