Billboard photo exhibit depicts moments of life in the United States these past few years
The cherry blossoms are out, the skies are light past 6 p.m., and once again there is art on the billboards along a stretch of the Arbutus Greenway. It must be spring in Vancouver.
But onto this year, and a new, perhaps more community-friendly project has emerged along the Greenway between Burrard and Fir Streets, which I visited this week on foot. Miranda Barnes’s A Journey Reframed, depicts moments of life in the United States these past few years – small intimacies blown up onto billboards, creating quiet announcements. Little, huge pieces of life.
Isolde Brielmaier, who curated the Capture show, calls Ms. Barnes an astute observer who is committed to social justice and equity issues, both in her work and in the world – including her subject matter. “They’re Black people and they’re there and they’re taking up space,” Dr. Brielmaier says. “And historically we have not been afforded that opportunity.”, twins in matching tutus and hair buns are photographed on their way to a ballet recital. Ms.
, depicts a young couple leaning against a chain-link fence, staring down the camera. At a New York park during the last week of summer break, Ms. Barnes noticed the couple with a group of friends, who had been swimming and asked if she could take their picture. “It was just a moment,” Ms. Barnes says. “I’d been watching them leave this pool and leave summer behind.” features a glamorous woman in a kerchief appearing pensive among trees stripped of their leaves during a Texas winter.
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