SNAP: Making the Digital Image Real Again
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The Polygon Gallery 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7M 3J4
Mia Zhang, "I See You", 2017
Chester Fields Photography Program Exhibition
Opening reception: MAY 27, 1pmExhibition: MAY 27 - JUNE 11
As part of Presentation House Gallery's education and engagement initiatives, we are pleased to present the finalists of the Chester Fields photography program. Established in 2008, Chester Fields is a juried photography competition that challenges the region's high school students to create original works of art around a given theme.
This year, we invited students to consider the ways that images circulate online. Because of social media and advancing technology, people are able to capture and share high-quality images like never before. But what happens to these images once they’re posted and shared? Who owns them? Can they be appropriated, or ever truly deleted?
In light of these questions, we asked youth from the Lower Mainland to choose an image that they posted on social media, and to create an original work of photographic art in response to it. “Snapping” out of the digital realm and back into the real world, students were encouraged to think about the photograph not as a digital file, but as a material object.
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