Gender performance and colonial mimicry through the family archive

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Wade Davis recalls being taught photography by Tod Papageorge: "he was an inspired teacher, in good measure because he had no interest in soliciting student opinion about anything."

For centuries the Saharawis have called the desert home, but they don't belong here. At least not on this side of the Wall.

George Webber visits and photographs the largest independent adult video store in Calgary.

The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection.

"Every time we visit my great-grandma's grave, we close our eyes and follow her footsteps across the sea, and back again."

Fireside Truck Stop, Rancheria, Bear Flats Lodge, Lum 'n Abner's—just a few of the disappearing outposts along the Alaska Highway.

In his photograph, Unit A, Ninth Floor, George Webber captures the last haunt of Diane Arbus, one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century.

At Au Lutin Qui Bouffe, patrons were photographed pulling the tail of a beribboned piglet that was wheeled on a cart from table to table.

The message on the sign under the elevated railway read, “The John Molson Way,” and seemed to have been designed to resemble a six-pack of Molson Canadian. These were confusing signals and for some moments I couldn’t understand what the sign, with it

These photographs depict a performance by William Davison and Sherri Lyn Higgins outside the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto in September 2002. The tableau vivant consisted of three ten-minute poses loosely based on the 1928 René Magritte painting

One summer I began taking pictures of people on the street surreptitiously, by holding the camera at my waist and aiming it at passersby when they were about six feet away.

Michel Huneault's documentary project, Post Tohoku, records the effects of the 2011 earthquake in Japan on collective and individual memory.

Large-scale photographs of small-town Canada.

The arctic photography of Bogdan Luca.

At the edge of Japan's super natural forest

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Photos of Vancouver Chinatown taken in 1956 by a mystery photographer and developed 50 years later.

The self-focussed approach of social media is channelled into the vintage correspondence of "Wish You Were Here."

Pictorial postcards were authorized by the Canadian post office in 1903, and the next 25 years became known to postcard collectors as the Golden Age.

Shots of abandoned Olympic sites–decaying sports arenas and decrepit swimming pools.