Led by Vietnamese-Canadian artist and filmmaker Hân Phạm, this workshop invites participants to explore memory, emotion, and storytelling through creative scanning and collage. Hân’s work experiments with video, photography, soundscapes, and bookmaking to reflect on the ephemerality of memory and the interplay between personal and collective histories.

In this hands-on workshop, Hân will guide participants to transform everyday objects, photographs, and memorabilia into experimental, abstract images using flatbed scanners. You’ll learn how movement, layering, and light can create unexpected textures, forms, and visual narratives, culminating in a personal accordion-style photo book.

This Date Night coincides with the CityScape Gallery exhibition: Experiments in Photography: Image and Object, as part of Capture Photography Festival 2026.

Cost:

• $40 or buy 2 for $70

Skills Learned:

• Experiment with flatbed scanners as a creative tool, moving, layering, and transforming images
• Make a physical collage inspired by your personal memories, feelings, shapes, and colours
• Assemble your scans and collages into a finished accordion-style photo book

Skills Learned:

• Using scanners in unconventional ways
• Exploring the interaction of light, colour, and texture in images
• Sequencing and designing a personal accordion book

Who should attend

• Anyone curious about memory, storytelling, and creative photography
• Artists or makers looking to experiment with analogue and digital techniques

What you need to bring

• Personal photos, printed images, or memorabilia to experiment with