I love seeing the Aimia/Grange Prize Exhibition every year
at the AGO. It's very inspiring to be able to see artists working today that
are changing what photography is. You never see just plain old photographs in
this exhibition - not that there's anything wrong with traditional photography,
it's just nice to see something different! It's so cool to see artists working
with all different kinds of mediums in their photography and how they tie them
together. It's hard for me to pick my favourite artist in the exhibition, but
it would have to be a tie between Elad Lassry and Lisa Oppenheim.
Elad's work is so interesting. I love how he is really
challenging the idea of what photography is. Adding three dimensional objects
turns his images into much more than just photography and I think it's great.
It really makes you think.
Lisa's work challenges what photography is as well but is
approached in a different way. I like that she uses pre-existing images because
that is what I like to use in my own work as well. Pulling up images on Google
is something that any person could do but she decides to turn them into
something of her own. Although her smoke images do have a deeper meaning, I do
just find them very beautiful to look at as well.
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