Gabor Szilasi – Prix Paul-Émile Borduas

© Gabor Szilasi - The Water Garden in early Morning mist, Giverney, summer, 1998. Image from Stephen Bulger Gallery

This week I will be taking a look at Hungarian born, now Montreal based photographer Gabor Szilasi. His 50 years of photography work is now being celebrated in Montreal and Ottawa with a retrospective exhibit titled The Eloquence of the Everyday.

Not only is Mr. Szilasi’s work being admired through art institutes but he has also recently won the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize. This is a very prestigious prize in Quebec named after one of the most renowned painters from Quebec during the early-mid 1900′s.

Congratulations to Gabor Szilasi for this respected award, for his prolific body of work and I’ll also take this opportunity to thank Szilasi for his influence on photography and photographers in Canada.

© Gabor Szilasi "Pointe-St-Charles (Montreal)", 1967. Image from Stephen Bulgar Gallery.

The image above is one of my first memorable images of Szilasi. The one that stays imprinted on the brain, the one that gives you goose bumps and the jaw drops. This image was brought to class by, then teacher, now friend, David Hopkins. One of the first, up close, fiber base archival print I would see. The moment captured in this image is simply “eloquent” and at the same time so Montreal.

— by Aislinn Leggett on November 02, 2009. Filed under Special Feature

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Aislinn Leggett is a Montreal-based photographer. You can learn more about her work on her website and on her personal blog. You can also follow her Twitter @aislinnleggett and on Facebook.