Dean Oros Photo + Design has been invited to showcase "Angelic" across Canada.

Regina, Canada: ANGELIC opened as part of Photosensitive’s Cancer Connections Exhibit this week to lots of media coverage – both print (see below) and TV. Regina is the first city in ‘09 the exhibit will show in as it travels Canada-wide until landing in our Nation’s Capital Spring 2010. The exhibit opened last year in Toronto.

I spoke with Photosensitive today. They told me Angelic looks ethereal in the exhibit. Nice.  S W E  E T .

We’re selling Angelic fine-art prints on our image archive website to help support cancer research. If you haven’t seen Angelic yet, take a look. It’s probably not what you’re expecting. If you’d like a one-of-a-kind piece of art for your wall, please consider purchasing a print. It’s for a great cause.

I’ll be photographing at two Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life events over the next two weeks:

Toronto Central
Friday June 12, 2009
Forest Hill Memorial Park
340 Chaplin Crescent

Scarborough
Friday June 19, 2009
Birchmount Stadium
93 Birchmount Rd.

Drop by and say Hello. I’ll capture an image of you.

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The Leader-Post (Regina)

Wed Jun 10 2009
Page: A3
Section: City & Province
Byline: Pamela Cowan
Source: The Leader-Post

A man hurrying through Regina’s Victoria Park glances at 500 black-and-white photos of people touched by cancer. He stops to look and read the accompanying stories.

He kneels on the grass and cries.

Such is the impact of Cancer Connections, a national photo exhibition that officially launches its 2009 tour in Regina today. It features the faces of young and old, known and unknown Canadians with a common foe: cancer.

Cassandra Fisher saw the exhibit being set up Monday, so she took a closer look Tuesday morning.

“This is inspirational,” she said. “All of these people are sharing their stories and some of them are still with us and they’re hopeful. I’ve had people in my family who have cancer and that’s all you can do — have hope.”

Read the full article here.

Dean Oros Photo + Design has been invited to showcase "Angelic" across Canada.

PhotoSensitive has released touring dates for the 2009 – 2010 segment of the Cancer Connections Canada-wide Exhibition. Angelic, which we shot last year, is featured as part of the exhibit.

Cancer Connections had its national launch May 20, 2008 in Toronto, Ontario where it showed for three weeks. The show then exhibited in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and Montreal (Quebec).

The exhibit returns for 2009, launching at Victoria Park, Regina, Saskatchewan, at 12.30pm on Wednesday June 10. The exhibition will be showing there until June 28.

You are all cordially invited to the launch ceremony, though I realize that most of you are more than a bus ride from Regina and may not be able to make it. Not to worry, Cancer Connections will be continuing its journey and coming to a city (fairly) close to you over the next 12 months.

July 15 marks the launch of Cancer Connections at the Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where it will be showing until August 5.

Other cities to be visited this year are:

1. King Square, St John, New Brunswick, August 19 – September 3.
2. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 10 – 27.
3. St John’s Newfoundland (venue to be confirmed) October 6 – 25.

In 2010, the exhibit will be traveling to Vancouver, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta; and Ottawa, Ontario.

Angelic is featured in the Canada-Wide PhotoSensitive Exhibition.

Yesterday I had a lovely conversation with PhotoSensitive, who called to let me know that they had selected some of my work to be showcased in their Canada-wide Cancer Connections Exhibit. PhotoSensitive will be turning 20 next year. It was formed to show “how the power of the photograph can bring about social justice in such areas as poverty, illness, racism, ignorance… and show the hope found in the face of adversity”.

How timely is this? Just the other day I posted that my Canadian Cancer Society / Brides’ Project shoot was starting to get some attention (see post below). It first received a mention last fall on Wedfog (USA).

What I love about this shoot was the fact it wasn’t planned. I came up with the “angelic” concept while I was shooting earlier in the day. I had no prep. The photography was only made possible with the help of some volunteer assistants, and lovely volunteer models who patiently sat / stood very still during long exposures. So, thank you again to all who participated. And thanks of course to PhotoSensitive and the Canadian Cancer Society for organizing an exhibit in support of cancer research.

The national launch of the show was last spring. It’ll be traveling across our great country for the next two years, and will have its grand finale exhibition in our nation’s capital in 2010.

When I have more details of the exhibit’s schedule I’ll post the info here on the blog. Thanks for reading. I should note that this image is protected by copyright and cannot be reproduced without permission. Please contact the studio if you’d like to publish this and / or other images from the shoot. Thank you.