Experiments in Photography: Image and Object

Sophia Bakos is a Vancouver based multidisciplinary artist who completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2022. Through international residencies and exhibitions, Bakos has developed a body of textile-based collage work which unites personal photographs, recycled garments, needle-felted wool and poetry. These collages stitch together eerie yet tender memories of a painful childhood yet to be reconciled. Bakos is currently working towards obtaining her Bachelors of Education at the University of British Columbia. She intends for her work as an elementary school teacher to inspire future collage projects. Phoebe Bei is an interdisciplinary artist working in imagebased processes, sound, and installation. Her work complicates and elongates existing entanglements of land, place, and the collective body through fictitious arrangements, objects, and spaces drawn from ideas of an ‘elsewhere’-showrooms to theatre. She has held artist residencies at the James Black Gallery, Griffin Art Projects, and Centre A. Bei was the 2018 regional winner for BMO Art 1st! and has exhibited at the Audain Gallery (2018), Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (2018), James Black Gallery (2021), Сapture Photography Festival (2017), Unit/Pitt (2020), Centre A (2024), and Or Gallery (2021). Bio:Robyn Jamison is an artist on a mission to bring about a world where everyone experiences the magic and wonder of modern and contemporary art. Robyn is a published author and visual artist who holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing. Her artwork is in collections worldwide. Her programs are known for producing genuine, personal breakthroughs in participants’ experience of art. 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 and Critical Image Forum, The University of British Columbia. 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.