“The best portrait photographers often use black and white photography to great effect. Shooting in black and white can lend a feeling of timelessness to your portraits.”
-Anthony Gebrehiwot
Meet Anthony Gebrehiwot
Anthony Gebrehiwot is a passionate visual artist, photographer, and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society.
A self-taught artist and photographer, Gebrehiwot founded XvXy-photo in 2014 focusing on studio portraiture. To date, he has worked with several notable brands such as Nike, Royal Bank of Canada, Vice Canada, Absolut, Hudson’s Bay, The City of Toronto, and Linkedin to name a few.
His work has been featured in over thirty local and international publications such as the Star, the Globe and Mail, PAPER Magazine, Elle UK and Yahoo Lifestyle.
ARTSNACKS is a bite-sized video series that will help you learn and create at home. For each ARTSNACK, you’ll be given step-by-step instructions to a creative project designed by each artist, but like any good recipe, you can make adjustments according to your own tastes, availability of materials, tools, and needs.
Cinematography & Editing: Anthony Gebrehiwot
Curators: Tara Bursey & Suzanne Carte
Program Assistants: Selin Kahramanoglu & Stephanie Hachey
AGB Digital Logo Design: Tee Kundu
Thank you to our collaborative partners Reach Out Centre for Kids (ROCK) and Positive Space Network (PSN), Burlington.
ARTSNACKS is part of AGB Digital, a series of virtual programs for youth focusing on art and community building.
AGB is supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. AGB Digital is supported by the Government of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Fund and Burlington Foundation. Thank you to Sobeys Glen Abbey for providing the snacks.
*Nicole Seisler, Recipes for Conceptual Clay (In the Time of COVID-19), 2020, AB Projects
