Join artists Louie Palu and Sanaz Mazinani, whose work is featured in the exhibition We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition, for a conversation with AGO Curatorial Fellow and exhibition co-curator Marina Dumont-Gauthier.

Louie Palu is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on social political issues such as war, human rights and poverty. His work has appeared in festivals, publications, exhibitions and collections internationally. His project covering politics in Washington from 2019−2021 was selected for a World Press Photo award.

Sanaz Mazinani is an artist, educator, and curator based in Tsí Tkarón:to/Toronto, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, including Mississaugas of the Credit, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples. Working across the disciplines of photography, sculpture, and large-scale multimedia installations, Mazinani creates informational objects that invite a rethinking of how we see, suspending the viewer between observation and knowledge. Informed by the visual rhetoric and confounding presence of contemporary media circulation, her multidisciplinary practice aims to politicize the proliferation and distribution of images, invite critical reflection, and forefront social justice and environmental movements