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Festival Events.
West End BIZ Winnipeg Photo Walk
Bring your camera for some fun in the WEST End BIZ!
Starting at 2pm at Seven Cafe (745 Wall), then moving to Wall Street Slice and ending at Barn Hammer.
Joining us will be Bella from Beyond Boundaries Photo studio to strike some poses.
Exhibit Walk through with Artist Heidi McKenzie
BREAKING NEWS!
Heidi McKenzie is returning to Winnipeg with filmmaker Anil Hardit-Singh to make a film about her exhibit at Gallery 1C03! While she is in town, she will give a walk-through tour of her show Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories on Monday, April 21 at 5:00 pm
MASTERCLASS: Pinhole Photography Workshop
(Re)Discover the elegance of analogue photography in this one-day workshop led by accomplished photographer, scholar, and writer Sarah Fuller.
Beginning with a presentation on the context and history of pinhole photography, participants will learn how to capture light in a found object and develop it into a work of contemporary art.
Following the workshop, participants will have one month of access to the AGSM darkroom to continue their experiments (April 29 to May 27) at no additional cost*.
April 26, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost: $125.00
Cyanotype Workshop
Join us for a fun Saturday afternoon of Cyanotype making at Forum Art Centre!
We will explore a 19th century camera-less photographic process that creates blue and white images under UV light exposure, and experiment with altering the colours of our prints with natural toners made of coffee, teas, and herbs. If weather permits, participants will expose prints outside at Coronation Park – which is right beside the art studio!
Participating artists should bring any personal items they would like to create prints with - the Cyanotype process will not damage them. Some ideas of objects to print with include: jewelry, shells, leaves, flowers, mesh, net, sheer fabric, crystals, knick-knacks, utensils, glasses, negative or positive film, drawings on acetate (sheets will be supplied), and much more!
Please come dressed for the weather and for art making, it might be a bit messy!
To reserve a spot please visit:
https://forumartcentre.com/courses/cyanotype-workshop/
This FREE workshop is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the School of Art, University of Manitoba, and is part of the programming of FLASH Photographic Festival.
Special thank you to Forum Art Centre for hosting the workshop, and for also featuring artwork by Kristiane Church as part of FLASH Photographic Festival's Bring Your Own Venue.
Kristiane Church is the workshop instructor and is a local artist and educator working in photography, filmmaking, installation, and performance. She is the Photography Technician at the School of Art, University of Manitoba.
Intro to Studio Lighting Workshop
Featuring Lighting Equipment from Don’s Photo
Intro to Studio Lighting with Ian Mc Causland
workshop (free)
Sat April 26, 2-4pm
Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery
600 Shaftesbury Blvd., Winnipeg
Are you baffled by Flashes and Strobes when trying to light a scene? Broad vs narrow portrait lighting? Come see Ian McCausland, with assistance from Leif Norman, demonstrating basic, and maybe some advanced, studio lighting with some of the cool equipment that Don’s Photo has to offer.
FLASH closing party
Join us for the big bash to send off the festival for 2025!
226 Main street Gallery
And also see Brenda Stuart’s photo show.
Catering by Modern Electric Lunch
The Magic of Solargraphy
Solargraphy is a magical photographic process that uses pinhole cameras to create ethereal colour images that track the movement of the sun through the sky over months of exposure. This two-session workshop will see the participants make their own pinhole cameras (on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!) which they will take home and install, leaving them to expose for 6 months! In the fall we will gather again to learn how to process the images made in the cameras. No previous experience necessary.
To Register: https://www.printmakers.mb.ca/education/classes-and-workshops/
Instructor Bio:
Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.
Camilo Londoño Hernández Lecture at PLATFORM
Camilo Londoño Hernández
PLATFORM centre is excited to host an Active Research Lecture by PLATFORM's 2024/25 Curator in Residence, Camilo Londoño Hernández on 3 May at 2 PM, presented in partnership with FLASH Photographic Festival.
Camilo’s lecture will unfold in three parts: an opening exploration into the conceptual roots of blindness, photography, and expanded visuality; a reflective, anecdotal discussion on the process of building un lento atardecer de verano | the slowly growing sunset of a summer evening with participating artists; and a closing Q&A with the audience. This 90-minute presentation invites a deeper engagement with the exhibition's core inquiries,rethinking images beyond hegemonic sight and into the realm of embodied, sensory perception.
Experimenting with non-traditional presentation methods: a circular seating arrangement, a shared curatorial reference document, and a performative moment where participants may lie down and listen with closed eyes to expand their sensory awareness.
un lento atardecer de verano, curated by Camilo Londoño Hernández, features works by Connie Chappel, Deinma David Iyagaba, Juan Pablo Patiño, and Comunidad Dis(lo)ca - Art Collective (Cristina Mancero, María Mercedes Román, and Suelin Noriega). The exhibition reflects on blindness as a radical mode of perception, inviting us to feel, smell, hear, and imagine the image, beyond the authoritarian eye and into a collective, poetic visuality.
PLATFORM's Curator in Residence program will be accepting new submissions for our 2025/26 program in July 2025.
BIOGRAPHY
Camilo Londoño Hernández is a Colombian cuir (queer) writer, visual artist, and independent curator based in Germany. As a constant game of moving words and images, his work plays with borders of literature to open cracks of affection, sexuality, pleasures, and power. He graduated with a master’s in fine arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus Universität- Weimar (Germany). In 2022, granted by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, he published his first fiction book “Los Perros Esperan Bajo la Sombra” (The Dogs Wait Under the Shadow). Additionally, he studied Social Communication and Journalism at the Pontificia Bolivariana University (Medellin, Colombia). There, he worked as a lecturer and researcher investigating imagery, literature, and cinema.
As an artist, he has exhibited in Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Costa Rica, and the USA. As an independent curator, he has collaborated with artists, galleries, and cultural institutions in Colombia, Spain, and Bolivia. For instance, his last curatorial project "Among Bodies" was part of the Experimental Photo Fest Barcelona 2022. In Colombia, he curated the exhibition "Sabotage" which was exhibited at Lokkus Art Gallery as part of the First Colombian Image Encounter organized by the Museum of Modern Art of Medellin. Equally, he accompanied the photographic show “At my feet are other lands”, one documentary project exhibited at the Museum of Art of Jericó – MAJA in Colombia as well at Tambo Quirquincho Museum in the frame of Fotofest Bolivia in La Paz.
Camilo is part of RITA Art Collective and Abraso, the Mobile Center of Intratropical Artistic Research and Affective Practices. Besides, he co-directs the publishing house Efímera. Currently, he is working on his first feature film “El Nadador” [The Swimmer], a project developed as a part of the exhibition “Lost in Translation” of the Bauhaus Museum in Germany.
Correction: Muller and Ironstand Artist talk happened on April 1
Catalogue error. The artist talk is not on April 18 but was on April 1.
Panel Discussion "The Language of Loss"
FLASH Photographic Festival presents
The Language of Loss
A panel discussion with lens-based artists:
Sarah Crawley
Susan P. Gibson
Tracy Peters
Moderated by Renée Saurette
Gas Station Theatre
April 17, 2025
7:00 PM
Sarah Crawley
Sarah Crawley will discuss her alternative photographic artworks, made during the time leading up to and following her mother’s passing, that explore vulnerability, grief and loss.
Sarah Crawley works with ideas generated from lived experience using different photographic technologies and materials; she stubbornly clings to analog film and alternative photography techniques while also embracing digital processes in her recent investigations around vulnerability and personal loss.
Susan P. Gibson BFA :
My interest is in the experience and merit of artists and audience who exist outside of the mainstream art lexicon; Grief Work images honour the universality of grief while focused on the consistency of change.
Mid century Canadian born inAlberta raised in Portage la Prairie Manitoba with visual being my first language and culture. Recognized early for my drawing ability art has forever been both identity and survival; formal art education and practice enhanced my skills Throughout life invitations to celebrations and ceremonies from diverse friends and colleagues informed my understanding of spirit and the interconnectedness of everything and everyone.This work reflects the influence of spiritual and artistic beliefs explored in Celtic and Indigenous art, which recognize that nothing living is still; everything is related and in an evolving reality.Tracy Peters
I’ll discuss how I use immersive processes to collaborate with the environment in an attempt to draw attention to ecological crises and habitat loss. 
Artist Talk: Dominique Rey
Dominique Rey is a French-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Remai Modern, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Scotiabank, and Province of Manitoba.
MOTHERGROUND: Dominique Rey with Madeleine and Auguste Coar offers a profound exploration into the intricate emotional and cultural landscapes of motherhood, inviting viewers to engage with a multi-faceted visual dialogue— from intimate, small-scale photographs to expansive photo collages, human-scale sculptures, and an evocative video installation. Each piece serves as a lens through which we can examine the rich tapestry of experiences that define motherhood, blending personal reflections with universal themes.
Anna Mariani: Photographic Notes
Anna Mariani: Photographic Notes
April 12th, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Directed by Alberto Renault
2024, Brazil, 70 minutes, Portuguese (with English subtitles)
Ticketed event
The uniqueness of the architecture of the Brazilian northeastern hinterland is at the heart of the work of photographer Anna Mariani (1935–2022). “Anna Mariani: Photographic Notes” retraces the dirt roads the artist followed between the 70s and the 90s, when she published her most famous works and helped an entire country rediscover the richness of the facades of popular houses as a phenomenon of visual perception and cultural identity.
A discreet woman, Anna Mariani didn’t like the title of photographer, but she created a series of iconic photographs: Pinturas e platibandas (Paintings and Parapet), a body of work that enchanted museums and galleries in various countries, as well as the audience of the 19th São Paulo Biennial. The presence of her work in this important exhibition highlights the artistic nature of her work.
Screened as part of the Architecture+Design Film Festival (adff.ca) in partnership with the FLASH Photographic Festival.
Cameraless Image Making Workshop with Daisy Wu
Workshop: Cameraless Image Making 10 people maximum
The workshop will begin with a short introduction of Daisy Wu’s practice. She will demonstrate how she uses old photographs, film images, fabric, and threads to create a new image. Additionally, participants will learn how to collage, cut and stitch photos together. At the end of the workshop, each participant will take home their work, along with a scanned photo-copy of that same piece.
Bio:
Daisy Wu is a photo-based artist living in Winnipeg. In 2023, she graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art, where she received an Undergraduate Research Award. The following year Wu participated in an Early Career Banff Residency at the Banff Centre of Arts and Creativity. Her practice involves photography, installation, and video.
Material:
Materials from Library and Artsjunktion :
Magazine or books
Threads and needles
Found photos or films from Artsjunction / thrift store
Photocopies from the printer (only from the library)
Material supplied by instructor:
35mm/ 120 format film negatives
Found photos and printed photos
Materials to be supplied by participants:
- Images or photos that you are comfortable to cut
- Found images
Artsjunktion : is a community-based charitable organization committed to redistributing reusable materials available take-what-you-need, pay-what- you-can. It is located at 594 Main Street, Winnipeg.
Free. To register phone, visit a branch, scan the QR code, or visit winnipeg.ca/library
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
April 11th, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Free
Directed by Erick Bricker
2008, USA, 83 minutes, English
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, considered by many the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away in 2009, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.
This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images.
Screened as part of the Architecture+Design Film Festival (adff.ca) in partnership with the FLASH Photographic Festival.
FILM: All the BEAUTY and the BLOODSHED
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
Cyanotypes on Fabric Workshop
Workshop Description:
Explore the possibilities of printing on fabric with the Cyanotype and Cyanotype toning processes! This alternative photography workshop focuses on the historical Cyanotype photo process using found objects and dye plants to create one-of-a-kind images on fabric.
Cyanotype prints will then be toned with dye plants and local botanical materials found in Manitoba. This workshop is suitable for beginners to photography, as well as those with little to no experience in the Cyanotype processes
Participants will learn how to create Cyanotype prints on fabric and will be encouraged to bring objects and natural elements from the Winnipeg area ecosystem to create photograms. A photogram is a photographic technique that uses objects as ‘negatives’, and that allows the print to be created in situ with available materials.
Participants will leave with:
· Knowledge of the history of the Cyanotype processes in the context of the broader history of photography
· Understanding of material qualities of different natural fabrics, plant dyes, and the water used for development
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Hands-on experience of the Cyanotype processes
Hands-on experience of the Cyanotype toning process
Introduction to methodology for experimentation and note-taking for further exploration
Registration Fee for participants: $128
Bio:
Sarah Fuller is a settler-Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums of photography, video and installation. She makes work about place, local narratives and ecosystems. She holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa and a BFA from Emily Carr University.
Recent exhibitions include Remold at the C2 Centre for Craft, Redesigning Paradise at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies with artists Mary Anne Barkhouse, Dianne Bos and
Penelope Stewart, Terra Incogknita at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, and Refugio at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. Sarah’s work is in public and private collections including the Canada Council for the Arts Art Bank, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Walter Phillips Gallery, the Indie Photobook Library and Global Affairs Canada.
She currently teaches as a Sessional Instructor at the University of Manitoba and serves as the Secretary on the Board of the FLASH Photography Festival.
Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba Opening & Performance
Opening reception and performance by Cheyenne Rain LeGrande and Cikwes
Sheila Spence Artist Talk
Sheila Spence will speak about her body of images, Lexicon for Loss, started in 2023. Profound personal loss coinciding with a major move from the prairies to Vancouver Island gave rise to this exploration. Images are captured on a flat-bed scanner in her garden in Sidney, British Columbia, and reference 17th century floral paintings of the style of the Dutch Masters. The scanner handles highlight and shadow in a specific way that creates a chiaroscuro effect that is reminiscent of the lighting techniques of still life paintings. Like the still life paintings of the 17th century, Lexicon for Loss images evoke the passage of time and/or the impermanence of life.
Sheila Spence is a lens based artist, activist and arts administrator living and working on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Saturday, April 5th, 2:00 pm
MHC Gallery, 600 Shaftesbury Blvd
