Ted Grant at Luz Gallery

October 21, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

Quinton and Diana hang photos for the Ted Grant exhibition.

The Luz Gallery opens an exhibition of medical photographs by Ted Grant. Opening reception starts at 6pm October 22 at the Fort Street location in Victoria. The Gallery also hosts a workshop by photojournalist Farah Nosh this weekend. Coming in March of 2010 Donald Weber will present a photography workshop and a grant writing workshop.

First Nations’ Art Unveiled

September 28, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

It always amazes me how often that you’ll get a run of assigments that are connected. This past weekend the photographer working ended up at two events where there were dogs wearing sunglasses. Last Thursday and Friday I had an assignment each day that was centred around First Nations art. Thursday was the official unveiling of the Darlene Gait/Butch Dick designed murals on the Ogden Point breakwater and then Friday saw the Lt.-Gov Steven Point show off the latest additions to the Government House art collection. The Luke Marston healing pole (below) is just another example of this amazing artists work. Three other artists had work on display, all excellent, although Marianne Nicolson, who had a stunning show in 2008 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria was the only other artist I was familiar with.

Don Denton Website & Blog Updated

August 2, 2009 | Filed Under Blog, Website | Leave a Comment 

My website www.dondenton.ca and blog have been updated and given a bit of a new look and a couple of new galleries added, thanks to Tristan Shouldice at Introvenus Design. Please check back over the next few weeks as I’ll be adding more photos to existing galleries and posting new projects. Thank you.

Ninety year old photographers, Photo-Snobism and more

July 17, 2009 | Filed Under From the Newspapers | 1 Comment 

The New York Times has a feature on 92-year-old fashion photographer Lillian Bassman and an obituary for 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Schulman.

Spacing Toronto on taking photographs of events from the photographer’s balcony.

A feature on Magnum’s Susan Meiselas at artdaily.org.

Interesting piece from Thoughts of a Bohemian on photo-snobism.

Dirck Halstead at the always interesting Digital Journalist revisiting the death of photojournalism

An important book pointed out by Jorg Colberg at Conscientious, The Last Days of Shishmaref by Dana Lixenberg. Say goodbye to the Arctic.

Check out the newly redesigned News Photographers Association of Canada site.

A day late but a nice piece about selling your own stock from A Photo Editor.

Diver Riley McCormick

June 9, 2009 | Filed Under Photography, Sports | Leave a Comment 

Saanich diver Riley McCormick is a young upcoming Canadian athlete who’ll be someone to watch at the next summer olympics.. Travis Paterson wrote about Riley and about the amount of time he spends falling through the air each month while practicing. He’s not only an amazing athlete but seems to be a really nice young man as well, very personable, clowning with the younger kids who clearly look up to him. The shoot was easy, lots to photograph and he has no problem with the camera following him around.  The only challenge were the diving shots as the light at the pool was fading.

McCormcik warms up with handstands that mimic his diving platform stance

Watching the younger divers around him train

Taping his thumb, broken during an earlier dive

A practice dive

Say Goodbye To The Canadian Museum Of Contemporary Photography

April 12, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | 1 Comment 

In this era of cuts to the arts and the cancellation of the new Portrait Museum, the fact that the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography has been effectively eliminated as a standalone entity seems to have slipped under the radar. A good article by Randy Boswell in the Ottawa Citizen for anyone interested in the full story. It seems strange that the Canadian government can’t support institutions like this when other countries such as Australia can.

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