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Zackery Hobler (b. 1990) is a photographer based in Toronto, Ontario.
His most recent body of work, Beneath Two Skies, is a photobook, which evokes literal movement through space and the physical act of looking. Set in oak woodland and savannah of southern Ontario, the viewer moves through a landscape, which is gradually revealed to be on fire. Using the horizon as an element of formal structure, it rises, falls, and tilts throughout the work, giving the landscape a fluid aspect. As the work guides the movement of the viewer through space, the fire’s presence becomes more obviously permeating and one’s certainty about the state of the landscape itself is called into question.
As founder of the Toronto Photobook Library (2017-2023), Zackery coordinated and curated ephemeral reading rooms, artist talks, and other events surrounding the medium of the photobook. TPbL worked with practitioners in order to bolster awareness and education on the photobook in the local community.
Zackery has self-published several photobooks and photo-based books, including Pamphlet, a submission-based zine showcasing photographs and text he sequenced together as editor & publisher in order to explore the potential for proximity between each medium to open new meanings and experiences.
In 2023, Zackery was part of the Long Term Photobook Program by Penumbra Foundation & Image Threads Collective.
In 2023 and 2019, he had solo exhibitions at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea, and Gallery 44 in Toronto, respectively.
Beneath Two Skies
Segments & Leaves Laying About
Toronto Photobook Library
Bookshop
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