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Framing the Family: Photo-based Workshop w/ Clare Samuel

Clare Samuel Flesh/Blood/Water/Light
Image: Clare Samuel, Flesh/Blood/Water/Light (detail) from Us (& It,) 16in x 22ft c-print, 2020.

Framing the Family: Photo-based Workshop w/ Clare Samuel
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1–4 pm
PAVED Arts, 424 20th St. W. Saskatoon

Traditional family photographs and albums do not tell the full stories of how we co-exist and intertwine with others across time and space. I will start this workshop with a discussion of my process making Malcolm (on view in the gallery) and an earlier project also exploring my experiences of family. I will show diverse examples of ways that photo-based artists have chosen to document and memorialize their relatives and histories.

Supplies Needed

No experience or photographic skills are necessary. But if you’re already making a project about family, you are welcome to bring work in progress to show and discuss. We will have lighting set-ups and backdrops for portraits and still lives, bring your own camera (phone cameras are fine) or we will have a couple of digital cameras you can use. Participants are asked to bring objects, clothing, costumes, heirlooms, or photographs that are meaningful to their family histories or loved ones.

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Clare Samuel

Artist Bio

Clare Samuel is a visual artist originally from Northern Ireland, now living in Toronto, Canada. She holds a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA from Concordia University. Her work focuses on connection and distances between the self and other, as well as notions of social division, borders, and belonging. Spanning mediums such as photography, video, text and installation, her projects are often a dialogue with the idea of portraiture. She has exhibited internationally including recently at OBORO, Belfast Exposed, VU Photo, Gallery TPW. Clare’s practice has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. She is co-founder and co-director of Feminist Photography Network, a nexus for research on the relationship between feminism and lens-based media.

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