Tag: photography

Union Gallery launches student-led photography club

Union Gallery has introduced a new student-led club called Photography Union. The club hosted a meet-and-greet for those interested on Nov. 10 at Union Gallery, providing people an opportunity to connect with fellow photography enthusiasts.   The scheduled photo walk was meant to provide a casual...

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War photography promotes action, not glamourization

War photography often gets a bad rap because it stems from suffering—but passing it off as exploitation discounts the powerful impact images. Photos shape our perceptions of events and allow people to experience things they otherwise couldn’t. Starting in World Wars I and II, photos began to depict...

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Photography and art magazine Blanc launches new issue

When Nunna Worku left Queen’s in 2016, her goal was to turn Kingston into her canvas.  On Saturday night, she launched the second issue of Blanc, a creative magazine that features local talent, fashion, poetry and photography.  Before creating and becoming Editor in Chief of Blanc, Worku studied geology...

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Living through a lens

In his final year of university, John Fleming is patiently taking a shot at his dream of becoming a filmmaker.    “You want to find your passion, and if you [can] make a living off it, then that’s your career. That’s what people should do, in my opinion,” Fleming, ArtSci ’18, said.   Despite his love...

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Union Gallery’s new exhibitions open for fall

Since September 9, the Union Gallery has featured two new exhibits presenting a unique look into the way people’s backgrounds shape their worldviews.    Until November 10, a project titled Espace Plausible; Plausible Space by Mathieu Léger is being exhibited in the main space of the gallery, while...

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A sentimental girl’s guide to 1 Second Everyday

After about a year of trial and error, I have finally gained some skills in documenting my life like the millennial I am. With these tips and tricks, you too can be on your way to a great, sentimental video. Let me be honest though: it wasn’t the smoothest journey to the end of the video. Known as...

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The future of fashion

When I first met Jia Zhang, I had an epiphany about the cargo shorts I was wearing.  Zhang, ArtSci ’17, had just returned from New York Fashion Week and looked like it. His perfectly groomed hair, designer clothes and polite mannerisms put my pizza-stained shorts and t-shirt combo to shame.  Growing...

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Seven photos by seven artists

In a photograph, the world appears to have stopped.  But in reality, people and objects on the other side of the lens continue to move.    It’s a sense of motion — often lost in still photographs — that connects the wide range of photographs displayed in Raymond Vos’s “7 x 7” exhibit.    This is the...

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Enough shots in the dark

During my coverage of the Wolfe Island Music Festival this summer, I noticed a lemonade stand on the main road, with a sign that read “No Photos, No Video. Stop documenting your life — just live it!” After photographing the stand, I continued along the road towards the festival. Nowadays, you’d be...

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Silent stories from inside Kingston Penitentiary

“Never snitch on nobody period, sometimes blood and money is the only mix, when against fire use water if fire does not work.” These are words that Toronto-born photographer Geoffrey James found on an administrative segregation cell in Kingston Penitentiary, that now sit on the wall of the Agnes Etherington...

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Minimalism with some substance

Empty but refined, solitary yet comforting — Wish You Were Here: Interventions into Landscape, at the Union Gallery, blends minimalism with substance. Five artists contribute to the multi-faceted exhibit, which, as the exhibit’s program puts it, is meant to explore the “modes of engaging with our...

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Humans Of Kingston

By Trilby Goouch Blogs Editor Meet Humans of Kingston, a visual census of Kingston aimed at conveying stories of local personalities through a photograph. Photographer Jonathon Reed (ConEd ’15) can be found roaming the streets of Kingston, snapping portraits of students, families, dog walkers and...

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Art On Campus: Jeff Louie

By Trilby Goouch Blogs Editor QJBlogs is introducing “Arts on campus” — a series profiling student creativity at Queen’s. To kick off our series we sat down with Jeff Louie, a PheKin ‘ 13 student-come-artist. Whether he’s photographing his latest dinner or sketching super heroes, Jeff takes a contemporary...

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