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Capture Photography Festival

Alison Boulier, Works from the Invasive series, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Dennis Ha

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Capture Photography Festival
Neighbourhood: Gastown
305 Cambie St.
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The Festival

2024 Festival Dates: April 1–30, 2025

Gallery

  • Installation view of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, Here and Now at Pendulum Gallery, 2023. Photo: Khim Hipol.
    Installation view of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, Here and Now at Pendulum Gallery, 2023. Photo: Khim Hipol.
  • Viviane Sassen, "Untitled 017" from "Roxane II" series, 2017. Courtesy of the Artist and Stevenson. Photo: Michael Love
    Viviane Sassen, "Untitled 017" from "Roxane II" series, 2017. Courtesy of the Artist and Stevenson. Photo: Michael Love
  • Installation view of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, "As We Rise" at The Polygon Gallery. Photo: Alison Boulier.
    Installation view of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, "As We Rise" at The Polygon Gallery. Photo: Alison Boulier.
  • Meganelizabeth Diamond, "The Surface of an Image", 2017–22. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Dennis Ha
    Meganelizabeth Diamond, "The Surface of an Image", 2017–22. Courtesy of the Artist. Photo: Dennis Ha
  • Capture’s 2023 Speaker Series with Dr. Mark Sealy and Dr. Kenneth Montague at The Polygon Gallery. Photo: Alison Boulier.
    Capture’s 2023 Speaker Series with Dr. Mark Sealy and Dr. Kenneth Montague at The Polygon Gallery. Photo: Alison Boulier.
  • Lucas Blalock, "Ducks", 2014. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber (New York/Zurich/Vienna) and Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels). Photo: Dennis Ha
    Lucas Blalock, "Ducks", 2014. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber (New York/Zurich/Vienna) and Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels). Photo: Dennis Ha
  • VIP reception of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, "Svava Tergesen: Ornamental Cookery" at The Audain Art Museum. Photo: Oisin McHugh.
    VIP reception of Capture’s 2023 Featured Exhibition, "Svava Tergesen: Ornamental Cookery" at The Audain Art Museum. Photo: Oisin McHugh.

The People

William J. Betancourt, Festival and Communications Coordinator
Khim Mata Hipol, Curatorial Assistant
Carmen Levy-Milne, Grant and Development Coordinator
Emmy Lee Wall, Executive Director and Chief Curator
Chelsea Yuill, Assistant Curator

About Capture Photography Festival

Launched in 2013, Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival. Annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibition Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events as well as an educational partnership with Emily Carr University.

Capture’s vision is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art. The Festival acts as a platform to expand visual literacy through lens-based art; strives to give voice to traditionally underrepresented communities and to present compelling, urgent lens-based art. We aim to connect communities to incite meaningful dialogue between artists, curators, audiences, organizations and institutions. Capture is committed to presenting perspectives from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups.

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