Susan Dobson was born into a family of land developers in Riverview, New Brunswick, so she became interested in urban planning and construction at an early age. She lived in Europe for some of her formative years, where she and her family visited cities where post-war rebuilding and restoration was still underway. As a result of her background, themes of unearthing and rebuilding, and architecture and archaeology are frequently evidenced in her photographs. Her work is also strongly rooted in the medium of photography itself, in its technological and material qualities, its history and archive, and its indexical nature.

Dobson’s photographs have been exhibited internationally at galleries and festivals including CONTACT (Toronto, Canada), Fotoseptiembre (Mexico City), Le Mois de la Photo (Montreal, Canada), Images Festival (Vevey, Switzerland), Bitume/Bitumen (Brussels), and FotoNoviembre (Spain). Dobson’s photographs can be found in numerous public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Swiss Museum of Photography, and the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.

Susan Dobson lives in Toronto, Ontario. For an interview with Robert Enright please see Border Crossings Issue 119

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Michael Gibson Gallery

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