Jeff Bierk takes friendship to new heights at Contact Photo Fest
Jeff Bierk takes friendship to new heights at Contact Photo Fest
The portrait photographer celebrates a 10-year friendship with collaborator Jimmy James Evans in a photo series that subverts power dynamics By Kelsey Adams
Courtesy of Jeff Bierk/Photo by Micheal Cullen
In The Absence Of Paradise, In The Absence Of Virtue (2019), oil on photograph on panel (48”x72”).
FOR JIMMY by Jeff Bierk and Jimmy James Evans as part of
CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL. At Dupont and Perth and Dupont and Emerson. May 1-30. contactphoto.com.
At the corners of Dupont and Perth and Dupont and Emerson stand two odes to friendship. For Jimmy, a series of two billboards that are part of the Contact Photography Festival, is first and foremost an outpouring of love from Toronto photographer Jeff Bierk to his close friend, Jimmy James Evans. In one portrait, Evans’s royal blue hair is scattered in the wind, his eyes pierci