Capture Photography Festival
Festival Launch and reception for the 2025 Featured Exhibition Stitched: Merging Photography and Textile Practices at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. Photo by Khim Mata Hipol
Launched in 2013, Capture Photography Festival is Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival.
Annually in April, lens-based art is exhibited at dozens of galleries and other venues throughout Metro Vancouver as part of the Exhibitions Program, alongside an extensive Public Art Program, an Events Program that spans tours, films, artist talks, and community events, as well as an educational partnership with Emily Carr University.
Capture’s vision is to connect Vancouver to the world through lens-based art. The festival acts as a platform to expand visual literacy through lens-based art; strives to give voice to traditionally underrepresented communities and to present compelling, urgent lens-based art. The organization aims to connect communities to incite meaningful dialogue between artists, curators, audiences, organizations, and institutions. Capture is committed to presenting perspectives from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups.
Past exhibitions have spanned artists including Douglas Coupland, Sara Cwynar, Adad Hannah, Karice Mitchell, Andre Petterson, Vivek Shraya, Ian Wallace, and Jin-me Yoon, with works gracing galleries big and small, plus buildings, billboards, and beyond.
