Photography

Devoted to celebrating and fostering the art and profession of photography through a diverse range of programmes, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is an annual event throughout the month of May with over 1500 Canadian and international artists and photographers exhibiting at more than 175 venues throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

We're all instant-photographers now that we have mobile devices with multiple Apps (Instagram, Camera+, Hipstamatic, Snapseed, etc.) to capture and document every moment of our lives—that sunset, our lunch, cute pets, that awesome concert we went to last night, and don't forget about the outfit-of-the-day pics.

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose large format photos show the way that human consumption and industry are changing the face of the natural landscape, now and in the future. The images are beautiful, but also very disturbing and thought provoking. The video below explains what motivated Edward to do his series "Oil". You can see more of his work here.

Did you know that Polaroid have a line in instant digital cameras?! Yep – a digital camera, that’s also a Polaroid camera. We didn’t either! And, their newest edition, the Z2300, is actually amazing. A small digital camera, with a three-inch LCD screen, that prints photos in less than a minute, and in the retro Polaroid style that we love, and custom borders to choose from. We want one. NOW. Available now, in black or white, with a not too hefty $159.99 USD price tag, and shipping starting from August 15.