WINNIPEG – If you’re a shutterbug, October is your month. Winnipeg’s first photography festival is currently taking place across the city.
“I’ve been getting messages from people saying they’ve been waiting for this,” said Leif Norman.
Norman is a local photographer who organized the festival. Flash Photographic Festival runs the entire month of October. Thirty venues are participating and over 50 photographers are displaying their work.
“I like the fact that the photographers find their own venues, they find places I never would think of,” said Norman.
Businesses jumped on board, celebrating photography by hanging it on their walls, promoting it or even making chocolate cameras. Owners say participating in the event was an easy sell, and has customers interested in coming downtown.
“It’s nice, you give them a bit of a tour. It works well with the artist and the store owner,” said Luke Nolan at Haberdashery. The store has a couple of different photographers on display for the month.
Norman hopes that October will be known as photography month in Winnipeg from now on.
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