(Photograph: Michael O'Shea)

Danny Singer Photography
www.dannysinger.net

Danny Singer is a photographer living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1945, Singer began his career working in the Film Department of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but, in 1970, he moved to Montréal, where he made the transition to still photography. Singer's photographs have appeared in exhibitions and art fairs across Canada, Europe, and the United States, and they are part of numerous public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Denver Art Museum, Crown Collection for the Official Residences of Canada, Canada Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. His photographs have also appeared in publications such as Canadian Architect, The Paris Review, Prism, and Prefix Photo, and he has received awards from the British Columbia Arts Council, Canadian Council for the Arts, Montreal Art Directors Club, Ontario Arts Council, and Portfolio magazine, among others.

ABOUT THE ESSAYIST

Grant Arnold was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in 1955, and he was raised there. He completed his B.A. in studio art at the University of Saskatchewan and his M.A. in art history at the University of British Columbia. He is currently the Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. During the past twenty-five years, he has organized more than fifty exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, contributed essays and articles to numerous exhibition catalogs and journals, lectured on historical and contemporary art at many conferences and institutions, and taught in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at the University of British Columbia. He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.