About
The Hart House Camera Club was founded in 1919. In 1922, the club held its First Annual Exhibition of Photography. The tradition has continued over the years, providing Hart House members and the University of Toronto students with the opportunity to display their work to a broad audience. Today, the Annual Exhibition of Photography remains one of the longest-running photography contests in North America.
The exhibition has nine categories, allowing for a wide range of creative projects. The categories have changed over the years. They include Film Prints (Mastery of Printing and Mastery of Execution), Portraiture, People, Places, Nature, Altered Images, Campus Life Images, and Photographic Essay categories. Cash prizes are awarded to the winners, and those prints are donated to the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management office for posterity.
Artists: Melissa Arasin, Shahmeer Athar, Aymeric Barbeau, Taro Cai, Art Chow, Greg Cooke, Izza Farhan, Nance Fleming, Anouk de Gouvello, Rick Halpern, Amani Hassan, Pravar Joshi, Shebonti Khandaker, Jacob Lee, Gerald Lerchbaumer, Melissa Li, James Lin, Celina Liu, Yangming Liu, Samuel Lui, Zuoxi Luo, Matthew MacQuarrie-Cottle, Tanmay Patel, Miqa Sears, Tracey Suba, Madeleine Tomala, Sydney Waters, David Williams, Yuhuan Xie, Hiu Yi
Categories
Altered Images
Gaze of the Druid, James Lin - Winner
Mud, Yangming Liu - Runner-Up
When I Was Younger, Sydney Waters - Honorable Mention
Feeling Good Today, Jacob Lee
Campus Life
Cooldown, Gerald Lerchbaumer - Winner
Ten After, Matthew MacQuarrie-Cottle - Runner-Up
During a Snowstorm, Hiu Yi Kwok - Honorable Mention
Plateau, Gerald Lerchbaumer
Photographic Essay
Memories of One Summer Day, Taro Cai - Winner
Disintegrating Memories, Samuel Lui - Runner-Up
Dogs Making People Feel, Pravar Joshi - Honorable Mention
Meurteada, Tracey Suba
Portraiture
Meditative, David Williams - Winner
Untitled, Shahmeer Athar - Runner-Up
Rituals in Transfigured Time, Celina Liu - Honorable Mention
Sprouting Spring, Tanmay Patel
Portrait 2, Samuel Lui
Prom Night, Madeleine Tomala
Nature
Gawkers, Yuhuan Xie - Winner
Deep Cut, Greg Cooke - Runner-Up
Mayfly Carpet, Art Chow - Honorable Mention
Sabbatical, Gerald Lerchbaumer
On Top of the World, Madeleine Tomala
All the Shades of Green, Melissa Arasin
Bruarfoss, Greg Cooke
Places
Surviving Paradise, Greg Cooke - Winner
Kerlingarfjoll Ridge, Greg Cooke - Runner-Up
Sunset at Golden Gate Bridge, Melissa Li - Honorable Mention
Cottages, Cape Cod, Rick Halpern
Au bord d'un autoroute direction Valence, Anouk de Gouvello
Beyond the Headland, Madeleine Tomala
Night at Chinatown Centre, Izza Farhan
En Route, Miqa Sears
Dior, James Lin
People
All Aboard, David Williams - Winner
Generations, David Williams - Runner Up
Pepsi Cola, Aymeric Barbeau - Honorable Mention
Lake Trassimeno, Sydney Waters
Connections, Nance Flemming
Young Boy Reclining Riverside, Shebonti Khandaker
Washing the Dishes for Nanny, Madeleine Tomala
Streaming, Zuoxi Luo
Getting Ready, Amani Hassan
Grand Prize
Memories of One Summer Day, Taro Cai - Winner
Gallery
Jury
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Micah Donovan
Artist
Micah Donovan is a graduate of the Kansas City art Institute and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where he studied photography, printmaking and sculpture. A fan of the shared experiences documentary photography and storytelling provides, he has creative-produced and hosted stunt cooking shows for Food Network Canada, sustainable tech adventures for Discovery Science, explorations for enRoute Magazine and other media outlets. He makes living sculptures, teaches analogue photography at Hart House, and is the Exhibition and Project Coordinator at the Art Museum University of Toronto.
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Albert Hoang
Photographer
Albert Hoang is a Toronto-based photographer whose work revolves around exploring themes of romance, tenderness and melodrama. A graduate of the Cinema Studies program at the University of Toronto (2019), his signature photography style is an homage to the immersive, cinematic aspects of romance films. Above all else, he is fascinated with how people bring meaning and context to the places they exist in.
His work has been featured in Mob Journal, Fashion Canada, Vulkan Magazine, GMARO Magazine, and Male Model Scene. In 2022, he had his first solo exhibition titled "saw you in a movie" at Dovercourt House that situated real life couples in constructed cinematic environments: dubbed "movie-moments" to create immersive, scene based imagery. These days, you can find him shooting events, portraits, and parties around the city while he makes progress on a new personal project.
He likes Instagram.
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Dainesha Nugent-Palache
Artist
Dainesha Nugent-Palache (b. Toronto, ON.) holds a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University (2016) where she was the recipient of The Dorothy Hoover Research Award, and an OCAD University Photography Faculty and Friends Award. Her work has been exhibited Nationally through venues such as Patel Brown, the National Gallery of Canada, The Portrait Gallery of Canada, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Gallery TPW, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and TRUCK Contemporary, and internationally in New York, Finland, and Vienna. Her work can be found in The Wedge Collection, Toronto Dominion Bank Art Collection, EQ Bank Art collection, as well as several private collections. Nugent-Palache was a 2021 recipient of the Scotia Bank New Generation Photography Award. She currently lives and works in Toronto, ON. and is a founding member of Toronto artist collective and gallery the plumb.
Through her performative video works and photographs, Toronto-based artist Dainesha Nugent-Palache explores the dichotomies and paradoxes inherent in representations of Afro-Caribbean femininities. Dainesha’s artwork flirts with anthropological and archaeological realms, often produced as a result of her familial digging. Her practice is concerned with visualizations of Black diaspora across pasts, presents, and speculative futures, producing portraits and other still life-based works. With an exuberant approach to colour and display, Dainesha's work often negotiates with forms of glamour, excess, and other photographic strategies inherent to the visual cultures of capitalism.
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Exhibition Coordinators
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Greg Cooke
Camera Club Exhibition Coordinator
Greg Cooke is a graduate student who has finished his Masters of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 2022. Involved in the Hart House Camera Club since arriving at U of T, Greg has worked to bolster the Critical Salon events held by the club, as well as organizing the 100th and 101st Annual Exhibitions. Though he is stepping away from an active role, he will continue to be a member of Hart House and participate in the club.
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Madeleine Tomala
Camera Club Critical Salon and Exhibition Coordinator
Madeleine Tomala is a fourth-year Cinema Studies and English major at the University of Toronto. A longtime photography enthusiast, she has been a member of the Hart House Camera Club since 2020 and has had her work featured in the 2021 and 2022 Camera Club Exhibitions. Madeleine plans to continue participating in and organizing critical salons and exhibitions following her graduation in Spring 2023.
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