Cole Schmidt Photography

12/07/2023

UPCOMING!

RITUALS EXHIBITION
Gallery 881 + Broad Magazine

📍Opening Reception: Dec 9 from 2 - 5p
📍Exhibition: Dec 9, 2023 - Jan 12, 2024

Please join us for our next exhibition: a group show featuring 28 physical works, sculptures, as well as a digital projection. The exhibition includes local and international lensbased artists and coincides with a launch of the latest Broad Magazine: Rituals Edition – now on pre-order from . ✨

Gallery 881 is grateful to our sponsors including .studio – a Canson Certified Print Lab and art finisher and – maker of Digital Fine Art & Photo range media. We're also very excited to share a new curation of meticulously placed furniture in collaboration with Retro Modern Design -- . All work was printed and framed by PrintMaker Studio.

See you December 9!! 📸

Image by Roger Larry


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CURATORS
Gergo Farkas
Broad Magazine

John Goldsmith
Gallery 881

Gallery 881 is grateful to operate on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

04/01/2022

PERFORMER ANNOUNCEMENT!

D**G GANISA
chace and I are proud to announce the three performers that will be gracing the stage at Q***r Spectacle's opening reception. Expect two more announcements over the coming days!

Back in February 2020 I briefly interviewed D**g about the pictured performance. I was enamored by the dramatic wig they created and how it flew during their number. Here's how they described its inception:

"I was falling asleep one night and envisioned a pillar of hair.
Almost like a pillar of fire but of hair, and coming from my head haha
So I tried to figure it out. I imagined it’d be a good representation of explosive emotions"

D**g then briefly described how they wanted to match the drama of the streaming wig to the music:

"I think the song (Best American Girl by Mitski) relates to me personally, so like, [the wig was] kind of a representation of my personal feelings and frustrations but also i thought it’d match the song haha"

On April 9th, the pictured image will be watching D**g perform from the wall as a glorious 24x36 inch print. Check the link in my bio for tickets to the opening reception!

03/07/2022

In April .chace and I will be displaying a collection of prints focusing on our work in 'Vancouver's' Drag community.

Our opening reception is April 9 and we'd love to see you there! Join us for an evening of socializing and drag performances :)
(performers TBA)

Get your tickets to the reception via the link below!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/q***r-spectacle-opening-reception-tickets-273572953067

12/28/2021

Congrats to Tody on the winning season 1 of Call Me Mother!

12/28/2021

12/12/2021

08/31/2021

Nick Benz ~ Blue

September 18, 2020

I've had the pleasure of creating some inspiring work with over the passed couple of years.

Expect to see more of it in the coming weeks!



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03/25/2021

Dorian Electra

March 1, 2020 at for

I adore this photo. It nudges me towards important streams of thought.

It takes me back to a time of intense exploration and expression. At the time of capture I was living a dream in Australia. My feelings around that trip are imbued with nostalgia, with hints of grief and regret. Will I ever experience that joy again? Could I have stayed in Australia and continued my adventure? Did I fail myself? That life existed directly prior to the pandemic, so maybe it's hard not to fantasize about it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

It plays Dorian's flamboyant, distorted, sounds in my head. Sounds that mix previously separate pop and electronic tastes, with pleasingly q***r overtones. Their most recent release, My Agenda, criticizes masculine characters that Ive previously related to. It is a satisfying listen that facilitates my own gender dissolution.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for existing. You inspire me.

08/20/2020

I've been itching to offer more direct support to "Vancouver's" BIPOC community. Id like to use my resources as a photographer to do so.
For the months of September, October, and November I'm offering free photoshoots to BIPOC folx. White folx who donate to BLM organizations can also book a photoshoot with me. Here are some organizations I recommend donating to:
> Black Coffee Fund
> Hogans Alley Society
> Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund
> Black in BC Community support fund for COVID-19
[i/d Three black squares with white borders. Each square has a title and points about the details of scheduling and attending a photoshoot with me. end i/d] @ Vancouver - Unceeded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Territory