A Handful Of Dust: Lecture With David Campany

Event admission is by donation.

Free parking will be available at the ICBC parkade adjacent to Lonsdale Quay Market

Related event: A Handful Of Dust: Opening Events

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Please join us at The Polygon Gallery Saturday, February 9 at 7pm for a Lecture with David Campany

Based in London, UK, David Campany is one of the most acclaimed photography experts of our time whose fresh perspectives on the history of the medium have had a profound impact on art and scholarship.  He has published widely and curated a number of critical exhibitions. For his writing, he has received the ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, the Alice Award, a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and the Royal Photographic Society’s award for writing. Campany is co-founder and co-editor of PA Magazine, which has been published since 2008. He teaches photographic theory and practice at the University of Westminster.

a Handful of Dust is on view February 8 – April 28, 2019

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