As a photographer, Barbara Spohr often captured the details of ordinary life that fell outside the focus of most people — creating an intimate archive of the beauty of the mundane. Originally from British Columbia, she spent most of her artistic career at The Banff Centre, beginning in 1974 as a participant in drawing, painting, and later weaving. She began exploring photography in 1977, and was later chosen in 1980 as one of ten photographers for the Alberta Anniversary Photo Project.
When Spohr died in 1987 at 32 after a long battle with cancer, she left a large collection of photographic work and a legacy of involvement with The Banff Centre. Her memory was honoured by family and friends from across North America, who created an endowment fund in 1987 to support young photographers in Banff Centre Visual Arts programs.
For 2010, the Barbara Spohr Memorial Award was given to Maegan Hill-Carroll, whose work explores the places where landscape intersects with human activity, playing with perspective and abstraction that verges on imagined wilderness. Originally from Winnipeg, now living in Los Angeles, Hill-Carroll recently completed her MFA at the University of California at Los Angeles, and has shown at galleries including the UCLA New Wight Gallery, Winnipeg’s Platform Centre Photographic and Digital Arts, and aceart inc. in Winnipeg.
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