Photography Manipulating Time

Capturing a moment, whether a split-second action or an encapsulation of the slow passage of time, is one of the most beautiful and impactful ideas a single image can convey.

The artists featured in photoED magazine’s TIME edition have produced time-bending works that, politely, gently, and kindly invite viewers to take an extra moment of consideration from our fast-paced image heavy world. The payoff is not only a visual reward, but also the gift of new ideas when considering one’s own future recordings.

The TIME issue IN PRINT • Cover image by Bret Culp • photo by Marie-Louise Moutafchieva #MadeWithAffinity

The artists in this issue work with time as the basis of their photography, taking their

explorations to new levels.

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

— Dorothea Lange

Sylvia Galbraith records room-size camera obscura images with such clarity; her work is a time-blending puzzle. Bret Culp uses the same tool, a pinhole camera, to create a single image recording: the passage of time over days, weeks, and months.

Sylvia Galbraith • What Time Is This Place?

Solargraph by Bret Culp,
“183 Day Solargraph #1 (2023.07.21 – 2023.12.21), Oakville, Ontario.” — Solargraph by Bret Culp, “183 Day Solargraph #1 (2023.07.21 – 2023.12.21), Oakville, Ontario.”

painting with light — Zinnia Naqvi • “The Wanderers ‑ Niagara Falls, 1988,” from the series Yours to Discover, 2019.

Zinnia Naqvi’s art practice embraces 1980s images from her family albums to question colonial influence and (re)present her experience to new audiences — perhaps relating to viewers’ own experiences and influencing recollections of whatever a “Canadian experience” means to them.

Craig D’Arville/ FFOTO.com + June Clark and Christina Leslie

I’m especially excited to present an interview by Craig D’Arville featuring June Clark and Christina Leslie. These artists’ works are thoughtfully crafted and loaded with immeasurable layers of history, family, love, struggle, and contemplation in every visual they thoughtfully present. I hope you can afford to make the time for these works, ideas, and more.

This issue features:

June Clark and Christina Leslie, in conversation with Craig D’Arville
Zinnia Naqvi, Time after Time, by Darren Pottie
Sylvia Galbraith, What Time Is This Place? Camera Obsura rooms
Wade Comer, Layering time in a single frame, by Cece M. Scott
Arianne Clement, Aging, beautifully. Documenting centenarians, by Alan Bulley
Scarborough Made: Celebrating five years of community storytelling by Sid Naidu