Critical Distance in Documentary Media

Gerda Cammaer is Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada, and is co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre. She is a filmmaker, the co-author of Forbidden Love (2016), and the co-editor of Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (2014).

Blake Fitzpatrick is Professor and Chair in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada, and is co-director of the Documentary Media Research Centre. His research examines war and conflict representation in documentary works, and his visual work has been exhibited in Canada and internationally.

Bruno Lessard is Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University, Canada. He is a photographic artist and the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (2017).