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Ryan Walker is a Toronto-based photographer, specializing in documentary, editorial photography, and visual advocacy. Having graduated in 2013, Walker holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). He is also an educator for the BFA Photography Program at TMU and Sheridan College. His creative practice explores intimate storytelling through cinema and photographic mediums.
Walker’s work explore narratives encompassing themes of land, identity, and the diverse ways in which society is grappling with and embracing the challenges posed by our changing climate. In 2019, he embarked on a significant collaboration with Vid Ingelevics. Together, they secured a 5-year artists' commission from Waterfront Toronto, tasked with meticulously documenting and thoughtfully interpreting the dynamic evolution of the Port Lands Flood Protection Project - one of the largest climate change adaptation and civil works projects in North America.
Walker's work has been exhibited in Canada, Russia, Italy, The Netherlands, Australia and the U.S. He has also received several awards, grants, and scholarships, including a Docking Station artist’s residency in the Netherlands (2020), PDN’s Emerging Photographer (Fall 2017), Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers award, an Ontario Graduate Fellowship, and a Magnum Photos scholarship. His work has appeared in Der Spiegel (Germany) and D Repubblica Magazine (Italy), enRoute Magazine, Report on Business Magazine, The Globe & Mail, and PDN Emerging Magazine.
Propelled by a curiosity to explore our modern-day relationship with nature - which is both symbiotic and fraught - Walker is especially interested in people and communities who model alternative ways of living with and off the land. We all have a fundamental need to connect with nature, and the closer we are to it, the more determined we will become in protecting and preserving it.
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