Hannah Thomson shot her first Coast cover in 1995. She was fresh out of art school at Mount Allison University, back in her Halifax hometown and wondering what to do, exactly, with her photography education. But it was The Coast’s lucky break. Thomson brought a rare combination of talent, work ethic, artist’s eye and captivating […]
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Katarina Marinic’s family ties
Katarina Marinic, Oceans of Change To November 3 Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 1055 Marginal Road Katarina Marinic is the child of immigrants, the ways many of us who live on this large rock called North America are. The travelling branches of her family tree are more fresh and linear than some, though, stretching […]
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Coast 25: Scenes from a time
My first assignment for The Coast was in 1995. I had recently graduated from university and was feeling totally lost about what to do with my life career-wise—and it was after my first assignment for The Coast that the stars aligned and I realized I wanted to be a photographer. From 1995, I was a […]
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Visual art review: Ted Coldwell, Colours from the Earth
Ted Coldwell, Colours from the Earth To June 3 ViewPoint Gallery, 1272 Barrington Street This is perhaps the easiest time of year to appreciate nature’s beauty. After spring draws itself out for as long as possible, we finally see our neighbourhoods settle into their summer skins, noting every day and relishing the smallest changes to […]
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Ali Seglins goes beneath the iconography
Ali Seglins, A380 March 13-17 Opening reception Monday, March 12, 5:30-7pm Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street Ali Seglins’ new exhibit, A380, is named after the gate code of the apartment she lived in last fall in Paris. She’d won the Roloff Beny scholarship—awarded to a NSCAD student working in photography—and moved there for two […]
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Brenda Pelkey’s cinematic landscapes
Brenda Francis Pelkey: A Retrospective Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery 166 Bedford Highway April 22-July 9 MSVU Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition explores the work of Canadian photographer Brenda Francis Pelkey in the artist’s first-ever retrospective. With a career spanning over three decades, the subjects of Pelkey’s photographs range from empty strip clubs and courtrooms, to […]
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Where’s the remote?
For Edwin Janzen, the remote control isn’t a handy gizmo that rules the entertainment centre, has an amazing knack for getting lost or calls to mind the Larry Sanders “no flipping” command. Rather it’s “a murky place of hair and filth,” says the Montreal-based artist/photographer, “almost a miniature ecosystem in its own right.” In Remotes, […]
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Photos from Friday’s We Believe Survivors rally
Last Friday, in the wake of the verdict that found defamed CBC host Jian Ghomeshi ‘not guilty’ of sexual assault, the Mount Saint Vincent University Feminist Collective organized a rally outside of the Nova Scotia Provincial Courthouse to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault in Canada. “It was definitely a very emotional afternoon that […]
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Found: Lost Documents, Halifax’s newest poetry publication
While trying to encourage local writer and musician Daniel Long (The Cannisters) to publish his poetry, Bijoux Wilcox (Faw Haja) noticed it might be easier for her and her buddies, namely Dylan Jewers and Grant Mitchell, who also all write poetry, to just do it themselves. “It became apparent that if we all contributed a few things, it […]
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Order this photobook of seven years at Evolve
What do you get for the special raver in your life that has everything? Just in time for the holidays, Halifax photographer Chris Smith has put together seven years of his favourite Evolve photos. The beautiful photobook is available for pre-order in both hardcover and softcover editions, and you can look through a glorious full preview on the sale site. […]
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The Beats go on
Until November 8, the MSVU Art Gallery is showing 116 framed photos taken by 1950s American Beat poet, Shambhala Buddhist and cultural visionary Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). MSVU Gallery director Ingrid Jenkner explains that, along with his poetics, Ginsberg practiced photography on a daily basis while he traveled the world. Many photos are candid shots of […]
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Kelly Neil
Photographer and food stylist kellyneil.com In just over five years, Kelly Neil has come out of seemingly nowhere to become one of Nova Scotia’s favourite food photographers. “I am fuelled by learning,” she says. “I don’t have any formal training and every time I pick up my camera, set up lights, move a piece of pasta […]