It’s that time of the year again when the world’s largest photography festival takes over Toronto. The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is a month-long event opening today May 1st and wrapping on May 31st. The theme for the 15th annual photography festival is Figure + Ground which focuses on our relationship to the environment and how photographic images alter perception. This year’s festival showcases Canadian and international artists at more than 200 venues across Toronto as well as public installations on billboards and in subways. The festival also offers portfolio reviews, workshops, seminars as well as films and documentaries with the participation of TVO with its Photography Month programming.

What to see:

©Fred Herzog

 

Fred Herzog: Vancouver
MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,
952 Queen St. West)

 

 

 

 

©Scarlett Hooft Graafland

 

Dynamic Landscape
MOCCA (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,
952 Queen St. West)

 

 

 

 

 

©Edward Burtynsky

 

Edward Burtynsky: Oil

Royal Ontario Museum
(100 Queen’s Park)

 

 

 

 

 

©Robert Longo

 

Men in the Cities
Public installation at Metro Hall
(King St W at John St)

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Pieter Hugo

 

Permanent Error
Public installation,
Billboards at Spadina Ave & Front St

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Denis Darzacq

 

Fall and Implosions
Alliance Française de Toronto – Galerie Pierre-Léon
(24 Spadina Rd)

 

 

 

 

 

©Suzy Lake

 

Suzy Lake: Political Poetics
University of Toronto Art Centre
(15 King’s College Circle)

 

 

 

©Alain Paiement

 

over here over there
Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria
(181 Bay St)

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Guy Tillim

 

Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba
Design Exchange
(234 Bay St)

 

 

 

 

©Haruo Nakano

 

Isi Shrine Photo Exhibition
Japan Foundation, Toronto
(131 Bloor St West, Suite 213)

 

 

 

 

©Robert Bourdeau

 

The Station Point
Stephen Bulger Gallery
(1026 Queen St West)

 

 

 

 

 

©Ian Brewster

 

Cover of Night
Brockton General
(1321 Dundas St West)

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Adam ShaX

 

Coney Island
Lakeview Restaurant
(1132 Dundas St West)

 

 

 

 

©Laurent Lévesque

 

Exposed 2011
Gladstone Hotel — 2nd Floor
(1214 Queen St West)

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Eileen Reilly

 

Shop
Grinder Coffee
(126 Main St)

 

 

 

 

 

 

©Tom Freda

 

Kodachrome Revisited
Fat Cat
(331 Roncesvalles Ave)

 

 

 

 

©Kaid Ashton

 

Urban Exploration
The Mascot
(1267 Queen St West)