Meet the Exhibitors

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Of Indian origin, Joginder Singh is a Toronto-based artist working with architectural-documentary photography and sound. Notions of Heritage and Architecture have always had a special place in his heart, and he tends to photograph these spaces a lot, the spatiotemporal visuals contributing towards keeping our ephemeral architectural heritage alive. Trained in architecture, he is fascinated with the intersections of architectural heritage and the urban fabric, especially ones where the original symbiotically co-exists with the altered.

Joginder has shown his work in solo and group shows. He has curated shows of student work as part of his interdisciplinary teaching practice that blurs the boundaries between photography and design.

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Sadaf Khajeh is a Torornto based artist with a background in Interior Design, Photography, and Visual Design, which has allowed her to explore different mediums and skills to create more diverse projects and push her creative boundaries. She received her Bachelor of Interior Design from X University (Formerly Ryerson University) and has a certification in Photography Studies from Chang School of Continuing Education. Sadaf’s creative narrative is often informed by her own experience of immigrating to Canada in her teens, as she often tries to form a bridge between the two cultures she belongs to by further exploring their sociocultural similarities and differences. Her short film titled “Distance” has been officially selected and screened at multiple local festivals and events including the Art Gallery of Hamilton’s Photophobia Contemporary Moving Image Festival, Trinity Square Video & Vtape’s Video Fever 2021, CineFAM Film Festival 2021, and Pleasure Dome’s Domestic Documents: Spaces of Care & Crisis. 

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Sila Alici Kavuk is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, with roots in Turkey. Her work revolves around exploring and inciting social change through non-fiction storytelling. She takes on projects that highlight social justice issues, with a thematic focus on immigration,  climate and gender. Sila has worked extensively with non-profits, the United Nations and community-led initiatives in North America and the Middle East throughout her career. She holds a BA in Communication and Design from Bilkent University and an MFA candidate in Documentary Media from X University.

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Giovanni Capriotti specializes in long-form in-depth documentary explorations that examine how time and inevitability of compromise shape individuals, communities, history, culture, and human condition. Through the integration of photography, moving images, audio, experiential prose, and personal testimonials, he strives to deepen his understanding of worldly affairs and the role of contemporary documentary practice. Giovanni’s imagery has appeared on multiple fine publications domestically and internationally and employed by an array of commercial clients. He is on the Advisory Board of the Loyalist College Photojournalism Program, plus runs photography workshops, lectures, and talks and teaches photojournalism at University of Guelph-Humber.

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Chelsea Nyomi Richards is a first-generation Canadian of Jamaican heritage. Her work explores the connectivity of the world through art, and she is interested in artistic identity, cultural identity, sentimental stories, and community building through shared experiences. As a multidisciplinary artist, she expresses her interests through the mediums of film, photography, graphic design, creative direction, and writing. Prior to her studies in Documentary Media, she completed a diploma in Broadcast Television & Videography from Humber College (2020), and holds a BScH in Life Sciences, with a specialization in Neuroscience from Queen’s University (2018). 

She is currently employed as a video editor in the film & television industry and operates a small business, Vagus Creatives (www.vaguscreatives.net), which is a blog and magazine dedicated to sharing the stories and work of artists and creative entrepreneurs around the world.

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Luke Galati is a triple threat — a journalist & documentarian specializing in filmmaking, photography and writing. He is the director of the award-winning documentary, Eastern, which chronicles the final chapter of the Eastern Commerce Saints, Canada’s most historic high school basketball program. Eastern was screened at five theatres in Toronto, including the TIFF Bell Lightbox and was broadcasted nationally on TSN. For three years, Luke worked as an associate producer with the Toronto Raptors’ documentary series, Open Gym.

Last but not least, Luke is dedicated to coaching youth basketball in East York, which he has done for the past six years. Currently, he is working on his next film, living in Toronto’s east-end.

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Chris Donovan is a documentary photographer based between Toronto and New Brunswick. Hailing from the industrial city of Saint John, New Brunswick, his practice focuses on the intersection of community and industry. The Cloud Factory is his graduating thesis exhibition for his MFA in the Documentary Media Program.

His work has been awarded the New Generation Photography Award for which he was featured in a group exhibition produced in partnership with the Ryerson Image Centre and the National Gallery of Canada in 2021. He has also been awarded a World Press Photo Award, the Environmental Vision Award (University of Missouri), and the Ian Parry Scholarship, and most recently, the Ryerson Image Centre Student Production Award – In memory of George Fleischmann. His photographs have appeared in group shows in more than 40 countries, and across Canada, including at the National Gallery of Canada.

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Yuetong Liu was born and raised in Tianjin, China. She received her BA in Sociology and Economics at the University of Connecticut and is currently pursuing an MFA in Documentary Media at X University (formerly known as Ryerson University). She has worked as a freelance commercial ads producer, writer/editor, independent documentarian and podcaster both in Beijing, China and Toronto, Canada. 

Yuetong Liu is an amateur artist and professional experiencer. She enjoys trying different art forms as she believes one expression form would always inspire other forms in unexpected ways. Though the outputs are different, her art concerns always keep consistent in culture, minorities, and self-exploration. She cares about human beings.

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Joey Bonifacio is an emerging filmmaker originally from Vancouver, BC. He is currently completing his MFA in documentary media at X University. His film documents the provision of transgender care to pediatric patients. When not filming or editing or watching theatre, Joey is a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Joey completed an AB in linguistics (Cornell) and MD (UBC). Joey completed an MSc in Experimental Medicine (McGill), an MPH (Harvard), an MA in sociocultural anthropology (UofT), and an MTS in Theology (Regis College, UofT). 

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Julia Wittmann is a musician and sound designer based in Toronto. She graduated from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University) RTA: School of Media in 2017, and has since worked as an Associate Producer/ Technician for CBC National Radio. She currently works as a sound designer for CBC Podcasts, and has mixed series including The Village Season 2 and Season 3, White Hot Hate, and The Kill List. As a musician, Julia performs in Toronto-based bands Dilettante, Breeze, and Praises, and is also producing her debut solo record as Loganism. As a documentarian, Julia is interested in using sound and music as vessels for stories of social issues. Her first documentary film, Housing and People Action Plan, is a creative re-telling of how the City of Toronto responded to homeless encampments throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Alana Repstock is a filmmaker and photographer based in Canada. She has a penchant for observational documentary and is much inspired by human relationships, fashion, food, languages and modes of speaking. She holds a BA in Journalism from Concordia University with a minor in Human Rights. She has worked in the past with Vice and has produced independent journalism, both written and visual, in North America, Europe and Asia. She has recently begun experimenting with short video essays and montages as well as image collages and plans to continue making work at the intersection of documentary and art. 

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Lakshya is a Nepali-Canadian documentary filmmaker and editor based in Toronto.  Her journey as a filmmaker started with the short film Teaching Taboo: Sex Education & the South Asian Diaspora, which was produced and screened as a part of the Reel Asian International Film Festival’s Unsung Voices program in 2015. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Development and her work lies at the intersection of art and social justice.  From a series of short films featuring trailblazing Sri Lankan women to impromptu audio-visual street performances in seven cities in South Asia, Lakshya places her own experiences and social location at the center of her work.

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Andrew Fullerton is a non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto, Canada. His work primarily focuses on the boundary between reality and imagination, as well as the process of using introspection as a research tool.

He has a BAH in Professional Communications from Toronto Metropolitan University and graduated from Seneca College’s Documentary and Non-Fiction Media program with the completion of his first short film A Roll of the Die (2019).