A wider focus

Forget quilts, carvings and other folk arts of the past; thanks to the era of the camera phone, not to mention that of the Kodak moment, the folk art of the future easily belongs to jpegs.

Photography is the closest most of us come to making art, though the medium, traditionally considered to be pop, is gaining steam among wide swaths of professional artists, too. The Toronto edition of the Contact Photography Festival, which kicks off its 11th incarnation on May 1, celebrates photography in all its varying artistic, documentary and snapshot- style glory. Here, Leah Sandals sits down with festival director Bonnie Rubenstein to get a big-picture look at the fest.

Read on at http://www.canada.com/cityguides/toronto/story.html?id=7ad0cfcc-291b-40ce-b84d-e1dcae8a1b6f&k=44932

Contact 2007 runs from May 1 to May 31 at various Toronto locations.
For more information see http://www.contactphoto.com.

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