Brand New Caribbean Canadian photography association looks beyond the Carnival for its first group exhibition
By Stephen Weir
Canada’s first professional photography association
is having its first ever major exhibition this carnival season. It all happens
in two weeks at the Scarborough Civic Centre on Borough Drive.
Beyond The Carnival photography exhibition
features the work eight members of the newly created Canadian Caribbean Photographic
Art Collective (CCPAC). Their framed works will hang in the Civic Centre’s
rotunda, July 24th to August 7th.
The new show is described as “an artistic
expression of Caribbean experience through our lenses.” The show is free and can be viewed 9am – 9pm
daily.
“The CCPAC, and this exhibition is all
about archiving the history of the Caribbean Canadian experience,” explains
Anthony Berot, the founder of the Canadian Caribbean Photographic Art
Collective. “ We have an amazing story
that is unique to the people of the Caribbean that now call Canada home. Black. Chinese. Indian we have a common
experience that isn’t African or American – it is our collective memory. As photographers and historians it is an experience
we want to exhibit to everyone!”
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| Photograph of Anthony Berot by Stephen Weir |
“The Canadian Caribbean Photographic Art
Collective is building a digital knowledge of the community,” he told the
Caribbean Camera. “We called the show
Beyond the Carnival, because, while most of us take pictures at Carnival
events, we are taking are pictures to places and experiences people might not
have seen before. I am in the process of
taking formal portraits of all the leaders of the Mas Camps who are part of the
2018 Toronto Caribbean Carnival.”
Berot, totting his ever-present Canon
Camera and his video equipment is fixture at ALL Toronto Caribbean Carnivals. In the last decade he has recorded every
aspect of the carnival.
For the past five years he has been the
official photographer for the festival. His pictures have been used by travel
and entertainment media from around the world. His work appears regularly on
television, in print and online.
Although the Canadian Caribbean
Photographic Art Collective, is not part of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, the
festival is the sponsor of the show and will be holding an opening reception
for this seminal photography exhibition.
Showing in the exhibition and sale will be
Benjamin Alunyo, David Lewis, Gilbert Medina, Horace Thorne, Ian Grant , Jenny
Baboolal, Peter Fauve and Mr. Berot.
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