2024 Winner

Clara Gutsche has worked as a photographer, educator, and critic since she immigrated to Montreal from St. Louis in 1970. She uses the view camera to explore personal relationships through portraiture, and cultural values through urban landscapes and architectural interiors. Major exhibitions include: the Centaur Gallery (1973), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (1973, 1975, 1979, 1995), the Yajima/Galerie (1980), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (1992), the Musée d’Art de Joliette (1998), the Center for Creative Photography,Tucson (2000), the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi (2001), VU, Québec (2005), and

OPTICA (2022). Her critical writing has been published in Photo communiqué (1983, 1984), Vanguard (1984), C Magazine (1988), Canadian Art (1995) and Chapter 5 in Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City (2021).