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Yann Pocreau, Archipelago, 2020. Courtesy of the artist. CONTACT Photography Festival Celia Perrin Sidarous, The Glow, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown View all images ↓
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The Festival celebrates the 30th edition of its annual citywide event with lens-based works by Canadian and international artists.

The 2026 Core Program of Exhibitions and Public Art Installations, developed both by CONTACT and through partnerships with local and international organizations, highlights projects by exceptional Canadian and international artists. This year, the featured lens-based and mixed-media artists employ practices variously incorporating themes of decolonization, community-building, activism, protest, and revolution. Several work in collage and photomontage processes to address personal and collective memory, displacement and migration, diasporic experiences, queer realities, and world-building.Select artists also explore gaps in historical and contemporary archives and embrace a return to experimentation from the medium’s earlier days and applying them to contemporary concerns.

This year’s Core Program artists include: Shannon Bool, Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Bob Carnie, Kristi Chen, Delali Cofie, Marlene Creates, Dylan Dae-Shin, Larry Fink, Tim Georgeson, Mickey Green, Hassan Hajjaj, Alex Hall, Leala Hewak, April Hickox, Risa Horowitz, Spring Hurlbut, Philip Jessup, Aaron Jones, Marie-Claude Lacroix, Parker Lily, Lilly Lulay, Alvin Luong, Arnaud Maggs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Caroline Mauxion, Marzieh M. Miri, Marlene Hilton Moore, Thandiwe Muriu, Sophia Oppel, Lu Pan, Celia Perrin Sidarous, Dawit L. Petros, Yann Pocreau, Kenna Robinson, Gabe Seamon, Jessica Slipp, Sheida Soleimani, Adam Swica, Ho Tam, Anouk Vervier, Sin Wai Kin, Bo Wang, Yujie Wang and Ian Wilms.

Yann Pocreau, Archipelago, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
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Yann Pocreau, Archipelago, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

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Dawit L. Petros, Colourscape, Coordinate #1, (Harlem, NY), 2009, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal.

Celia Perrin Sidarous, The Glow, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown
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Celia Perrin Sidarous, The Glow, 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown

Sin Wai Kin, ESSENCE (6 Sheet), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.
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Sin Wai Kin, ESSENCE (6 Sheet), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

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Sheida Soleimani, Agitator, 2025. Courtesy of the artist, Edel Assanti, London, and Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels. Delali Cofie, Independence Square, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and United Contemporary.

Alvin Luong, Before I was Coral, 2025, Digital Production Still. Courtesy of the artist.
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Alvin Luong, Before I was Coral, 2025, Digital Production Still. Courtesy of the artist.

Arnaud Maggs, After Nadar: Pierrot and Bauchet, 2012 © Estate of Arnaud Maggs.
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Arnaud Maggs, After Nadar: Pierrot and Bauchet, 2012 © Estate of Arnaud Maggs.

Hassan Hajjaj, Orthodox, from the series La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes, 2011/1432. Courtesy of the artist.
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Hassan Hajjaj, Orthodox, from the series La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes, 2011/1432. Courtesy of the artist.

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Bo Wang and Pan Lu, Replicas of Contact, 2026. Photo and Painting Collage in B&W/Color Photo source: Public Domain. Courtesy of the artists.

CONTACT Photography Festival by Heather Meltzer

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