SPARK Photography Festival

Craig Dickens, Cape Town
March 28 - May 5, 2024

Opening Reception Thursday, April 11th from 5-7pm

This series of photographs was shot in Cape Town, South Africa, my first trip back since immigrating to Canada 36 years ago. Each of these buildings is in Bo-Kaap, formerly known as the Malay Quarter under the Apartheid Regime. Compared to the rest of the city, this neighbourhood has always been the most vibrant; dwellings teeming with brilliant colours and contrasting palettes as a way to celebrate the lifting of restrictions on home ownership by non-whites. Learn more here. 

Steve Kiernan, Flow
March 28 - May 5, 2024
Opening Reception Thursday, April 11th from 5-7pm

The sun begins to set, lights start to glow, now is the time for painting with my camera. My images are long-exposure photographs that capture an extended period of time that is not seen by the naked eye. It is an exploration of light, movement, pattern, and chaos. I plan a situation and embrace the indiscriminate outcome.

I began painting with light in high school with a 35mm camera I ordered from the back of a comic book. When I took my camera out at night, fixed shots were difficult to achieve due to the lack of a steady surface on which to rest my camera. I accepted this challenge and began to move the camera in a more purposeful way. Fast forward to the digital age, I can now experiment, create, collect, delete, and learn from one shot to the next. Moving and spinning allow the light to move in unique and unpredictable ways resulting in interesting patterns. 
 

The gallery always features a group show of local artists as well. 

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