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May 18, 2023

The art of work

The value of work, particularly that of migrant workers who have helped build Canada, have been the focus of Vince Pietropaolo’s lens over the years.

Vince Pietropaolo’s lens points us to who built Canada.

Published in Features
December 11, 2020

Capturing the northern spirit

he old Holy Name of Mary Mission in Tsiigehtchic, N.W.T., is bathed in the northern lights. The church is side by side with the new church.

Situated in one of Canada’s coldest and most geographically isolated regions, the area encompassed by the Diocese of MacKenzie-Fort Smith in the Northwest Territories is a nature lover’s dream.

Published in Features
May 23, 2019

Youth Speak News Media Retreat Photo Essay

On May 18, photographer Bill Wittman led the team on a photo expedition to St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica in downtown Toronto.

St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica is more than just a historical monument. For the faithful people of the Archdiocese of Toronto, it is an expression of honour, worship and tradition.

Published in Youth Speak News
January 14, 2017

For over four decades, this photographer documented the underprivileged

Veteran photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo has been photographing refugees and migrants for more than four decades.

The sword of justice sometimes takes the form of a sliver of light that slips into a camera for just 1/60th of a second.

Published in Features
September 1, 2016

Christian photographer tries Kickstarter campaign for a hotel with a purpose

A rendering of a hotel room inside the proposed Purpose Hotel.

Photography has taken Jeremy Cowart around the world. Cowart — recently featured in Christianity Today’s “Makers” issue and named the “Most Influential Photographer on the Web” by The Huffington Post — has photographed the Passion World Tour in 2008 and Britney Spears’ Circus World Tour in 2009.

Published in Faith
June 13, 2015

Bringing the human back into hospital design

Photographer Joanna Johnston’s “Here. This is what I feel” exhibit shows how hospital design works against its healing mission.

TORONTO - People go to hospital in the hope of feeling better. But if patients are welcomed into a forbidding, institutional room with a strange bed, fluorescent lights and cold, hard floor, what then?

Published in Arts News
June 23, 2012

Finding the story behind the church through photography

Ottawa-based photographer Mark Schacter’s photographs of churches across Canada and the United States will be compiled in a book to be released next year.

When Ottawa-based photographer Mark Schacter realized he had amassed a pretty extensive collection of church photographs, he was a bit surprised.

Schacter will be spending the next year building on his library of church photos, following in the footsteps of some of the great photographers of our day, from Ansel Adams to James Nachtwey. Schacter is adding more churches, as well as synagogues, mosques, gudwaras and temples, for his Houses of Worship project — a book to be published in 2013. The book of photos and essays will concentrate on architecture inspired by faith in Canada and the United States.

Published in Arts News
May 31, 2012

Photography club inspires confidence in young women

Members of the photography club at Loretto College are preparing for their first public exhibit, which will be held June 11 and 12 at High Park’s Colborne Lodge Carriage House. Teacher Diane Vautour, second from left, started the photography club and photographer Erin Riley, at far right, teaches the workshops.

TORONTO - When Diane Vautour developed a yearbook course that incorporated photography at Loretto College two years ago she immediately saw the potential benefits that photography could bring to her students.

So she applied for a SpeakUp grant from the provincial government to start a photography club at the all-girls Catholic school in Toronto. The SpeakUp grants are given to students and teachers in support of programs intended to engage students within the school and wider community.

And the photography club, which is preparing for its first public exhibition, has certainly exceeded these expectations.

Published in Youth Speak News