SPAO at the Contact Photography Festival
For Exhibition No. 12, the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa (SPAO) curated a show that merges work by current students with alumni artwork in the city of Ottawa’s public art collection. Each artist has produced their own individualized work that draws from traditional and contemporary photographic techniques and ideas. Established to advance knowledge, creativity, and innovation in photography, SPAO is a not-for-profit photographic-arts school and a registered private career college in Ottawa, Canada.
Featured artists include:
Abigail Gossage
Adrien Duey
Alexandra Sofia
Amanda Belanger
Amanda Purdy
Ami Jarvis
Andrew Erik Macartney
Angela Walker
Barbara Bolton
Barbara Brown
Celeste Martin
Charles Bechara
Christian Villemaire
Danni-Rae Mistaken Chief
David Barbour
Fran Noftle
Freeman Keats
Geneviève Labbé
Glenn Bloodworth
Greg Zehna
Hannah Evans
Henry Black
Hugo Brown
Jeff Poulin
Jim des Rivières
Jim Lamont
Jocelyn Keays
John Hallum
John Healey
John Richardson
Jonathan Hobin
Josh Hotz
Lawrence Cook
Leslie Hossack
Lucia Mugica
Melle Harris
Michael Tardioli
Mitchell Burton
Neeko Paluzzi,
Olivia Johnston
Pablo Melendez
Patricia Wallace
Rajeev Nath
Robert Proulx
Ruth Steinberg
Saman Deilamani
Semira Selman
Susan Kilbank
Vera Saltzman
Whitney Lewis-Smith
Curated by Michael Tardioli

















































































































