Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, 2012, Totonto, Events

Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces
Opening: Saturday, April 28, 6–9 p.m.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ARTS CENTRE
May 1–June 30, 2012

Installation view with Ai Weiwei’s works. Photo: Nicholas Liang

Installation view with Richard Mosse’s photographs. Photo: Nicholas Liang.

Tarek Abouamin with his work. Photo: Nicholas Liang

Installation view with Robert Giard’s works. Photo: Nicholas Liang

 Max Dean, Album Project, “the installation on wheels” in front of UTAC. Photo: Nicholas Liang

Gender and Exposure in Contemporary Iranian Photography
Opening: Friday, May 4, 6 – 9 p.m.
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 5, 3 – 4 p.m.
GALLERY 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
May 4 – June 16, 2012

Installation view with Amirali Ghasemi’s work and visitors. Photo: Barbara D. Waginski

Installation view with visitors. Photo: Barbara D. Waginski

Installation view with Abbas Kowsari’s work . Photo: Barbara D. Waginski

The opening crowd.  Photo: Barbara D. Waginski

Larry Towell, Donovan Wylie / Afghanistan
Opening: Friday May 4, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Artist Talk: Friday, May 11, 7 p.m.
Institute for Contemporary Culture, Royal Ontario Museum
May 5 – July 8, 2012

Installation view with Larry Towell’s works and visitor at the opening. Photo: Aeree Rho

Larry Towell, Woman selling glamour magazines. Kabul, Afghanistan , 2010, © Larry Towell/Magnum Photos

 Donovan Wylie, FOB Masum Ghar, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, 2010, © Donovan Wylie/Magnum Photos

Installation view with Donovan Wylie’s works and visitor at the opening. Photo: Aeree Rho

April Hickox: Vantage
Opening: Thursday, May 10, 5 – 8 p.m.
Katzman Kamen Gallery
May 10 – June 2, 2012

Installation view. Photo: Aeree Rho

Gallery owner Marianne Katzman with artist April Hickox at the opening. Photo: Aeree Rho

Installation view with visitors at the opening. Photo: Aeree Rho

Installation view with visitors at the opening. Photo: Aeree Rho

This is a site, updated daily, showing how our staff, photographers and interns saw the exhibitions, openings and events of  Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, 2012. You can join in and send your photographs or reviews about any show to us (emese@artoronto.ca).

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