Vid Ingelevics, Ryan Walker Port Lands Bridges: A Recent Visual History
Artists Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker have spent the last five years documenting the ongoing transformation of the Port Lands. Contextualized historically by the City of Toronto Archives archivists from their photo collections, Ingelevics and Walker will present a focused look at Port Lands bridges as excerpted from their larger documentary project, How to Build a River.
Vid Ingelevics is a Toronto-based artist, independent curator and writer. He holds the title of Associate Professor Emeritus from the School of Image Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), where he taught from 2007. Prior to that he taught at OCAD University. His research-based practice has been concerned with the representation of the past, the role of the photographic archive as well as with urbanist issues related to Toronto. He works primarily with photography, video and installation. His projects as artist and curator have been exhibited across Canada, in the US, Europe and Australia.
Ryan Walker is a Toronto-based artist, specializing in documentary, editorial photography, and visual advocacy. Walker’s work has been exhibited across Canada, in the United States, Russia, Italy, Finland, The Netherlands and Australia. Having graduated in 2013, he holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, formerly Ryerson University). He is also an educator for the BFA Photography Programs at TMU and Sheridan College. His creative practice and research focuses on humanity’s evolving modern-day relationship with nature through photography, cinema and installation.