{"id":53463,"date":"2024-04-30T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T18:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=53463"},"modified":"2024-09-25T15:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T19:32:21","slug":"contact-photography-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=53463","title":{"rendered":"CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CONTACT<br \/>FOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>May \/ Various locations across the Greater Toronto Area<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28th edition of Toronto\u2019s preeminent, annual, month-long festival presents over 130 exhibitions city-wide featuring more than 250 artists. Established and emerging artists will present lens-based works in exhibitions, public art installations, and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2024 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/2024\/core\" title=\"\">Core Exhibitions<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Public Art Installations<\/strong> present works by artists and photographers exploring topics including anti-colonial practices, community-building, Afro-futurism, crip liberation, ceremony and revolution, and personal and collective memory, addressing violent gaps in historical archives. 36 curated exhibitions and public art installations, presented in partnership with institutions across the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/2024\/public-programs\" title=\"\">Public Programs<\/a><\/strong> involve 44 public artist talks, workshops, portfolio reviews and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/2024\/open-call\" title=\"\">Open Call Exhibitions<\/a>, <\/strong>you can visit 103 community-generated exhibitions at venues throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please visit the CONTACT <a href=\"https:\/\/contactphoto.com\/\" title=\"\">website<\/a> for more information<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Exhibition information: May 1 \u2013 May 31, 2024, some exhibitions begin before and\/or extend beyond the month of May. Held at venues across the Greater Toronto Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**Featured image: Felicia Byron, Harvest at Tangled Art + Disability, May 1 &#8211; July 19, 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May \u2013 July, 2024<br \/>\nVarious locations in Toronto and the GTA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the largest photography festival in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Canada<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=53463\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53463"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53508,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53463\/revisions\/53508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}