photoED Magazine: Meld

Spring/Summer 2025 Edition

Cover image by Sarah E. Fuller. Photo of the magazine by Margaret Mulligan.

photoED Magazine: The Meld issue is in print now

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
– Francis Bacon

Issue #73 is photoED Magazine’s first ever international edition and it’s packed with fresh lens-based perspectives from Canada and around the world.

Meld
The Meld themed issue showcases photography as a creative blender, where artists have worked slowly and carefully, crafting considered, intentional, and complicated projects.

Optimism and Empowerment
Although much of the work speaks to many of the dark challenges we face—environmental disaster, war, human rights issues, AI, and more—this edition presents a strong, optimistic, hopeful, and empowered collective view.

Inspiration for Change
This issue invites viewers to slow down and to be curious, empathetic, and inspired towards positive, peaceful change in the world.

In this edition…

Emma Nishimura’s use of photographic documents to craft her intricate, delicate, and beautiful pieces connects the viewer with a very real family wartime story melding her craft with her grandmother’s experience arriving in Canada.

Prolific outsider artist Martha Davis’ dioramas and greenscreen projects are vivid, quickly made sketches that demand attention and slam down hard conversation ignitions about genuinely important topics: community, seniors, children, our environment, social justice, and more.

Ben Freedman’s work questions the truth of an image while presenting viewers with hyper-real narratives that may or may not exist.

Natalie Hunter’s work invites viewers into a physical experience of quiet light and joyful colour. Her work asks us to pause and breathe as we enjoy a rare analog experience.

Duane Isaac’s work combines the physical craft of mask-making with photography to present viewers with an Indigiqueer perspective that explores identity, culture, and sexuality.

+ Book Recommendations by Brian St. Denis / Contact Photography Festival Photo Book Lab

+ Change Made: Melding Change Through Storytelling by Sid Naidu

+ Hannah Maynard’s Gems by Cassandra Spires

+ SPAO: If You Build It, They Will Come by Corinna vanGerwen

+ The International Portfolio features:

Trina O’Hara (Australia / Italy)
Sarah E. Fuller (Canada)
Pavlo Fyshar (Ukraine / Germany)
Maryam Firuzi (Iran)
Rosemary Horn (New Zealand)
Diego Fabro (Brazil / Dublin)
Monica Rooney (Canada)
Christine Germano (Canada)
Zelda Zinn (USA)
Ralph Nevins (Canada)

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Join us in person at Toronto’s Contact Festival Photo Book Lab launch event May 29, 2025.

This edition could not have been possible without the support of:
Tamron, Nikon, a very generous anonymous private donor passionate about supporting Canadian women in photography, The Government of Canada, our Patreon Patrons and subscribers, The Photo Historical Society of Canada, Beau Photo, Harcourt House, GuruShots, Downtown Camera, B3K Digital, Front Row Insurance, Professional Photographers of Canada, and Total Image Works.

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Contact
For questions or comments, contact the Publisher:
Rita Godlevskis
rita@photoed.ca