Life on display
Collection of Lionel Stevenson featured at Watermark Gallery
A distinguished Island photographer will have their work featured at the Watermark Theatre’s gallery this summer. Lionel F. Stevenson, a New Glasgow native, studied photography in Toronto and was awarded Canadian Photographer of the year in 1967. In 1977 he founded a commercial photography and design studio, Camera Art in Charlottetown which he operated until his death in 2017. Through his career Stevenson embarked on a variety of projects including “Elders of Island” which is a collection of 30 portraits of Island elders purchased by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, a series of architectural books with Scott Smith and “Document of Our Times” a 1978 exhibition at the Confederation Centre that recorded Island life. In 2012-13 Lionel had a retrospective, “50 Years of Photographs” at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, which revealed to the viewer the range and dedication of his talent. “If the photograph has always been a matter of evidence, Lionel Stevenson’s photographs are evidence not only of moments in the past but the lasting strength of the attentive hand and eye,” said Pan Wendt, curator of Stevenson’s retrospective. The Watermark Gallery opens on June 26 and is open Monday through Saturday until Aug. 31/ For more information call 902-963-3963 or contact Andrea Surich at generalmanager@ watermarktheatre.com.