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Stephen Bulger is perhaps Toronto's most successful purveyor of photography. Since opening his eponymous gallery in 1995, Bulger has curated 110 exhibitions and represented more than 50 photographers, traveling regularly to promote their work here and abroad. In 1997 he co-founded Contact, now the largest photography festival of its kind in North America, during which seemingly every gallery and spare wall in the city is given over to photographs. As a collector whose principle interest is the documentary image, Bulger occupies a unique corner of the photography scene, one that has sustained the growth of his gallery while raising the profile of both contemporary and forgotten photographers.

and is modeled after an annual Parisian festival that began in October of 2002 and has already spread to other cities such as Brussels, Rome, and Madrid.

Seems like just days ago we were dealing with smog alerts, heat stroke and gooey asphalt. Now we're thinking about fall fashion, the film fest and falling leaves. Where did the summer go? More importantly where did all those summer art shows go?

John Redekop, whose work can be seen at Spin Gallery, takes strips of paper cut out of magazines and newspapers and laboriously transforms them into sculptures like “Heap.” A piece where Redekop glued thousands of pieces of paper and balanced them on a single nail. The resulting work looks and feels like a cross-section of a giant tree trunk. But instead of leaving us a record of the climate, of droughts and rainy seasons, Redekop instead gives us a conceptual archive of popular culture and disposable media.