Where: Vancouver Eastside Cultural Centre Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Times: 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

The media and public are invited to attend the opening of "Through", an exhibition of new photography by Vancouver artist Florence Debeugny.

Florence Debeugny was born in France and has lived and worked in Vancouver for twenty-four years. Her photographs have appeared in The Georgia Straight, Express du Pacifique, Event magazine, Geist magazine and The Soundscape, and have been exhibited in Vancouver with Artropolis, the Western Front, the Vancouver Glass Onion and the Exposure Gallery. Her work has also been exhibited in Toronto, Kaslo, Britannia Beach, Galiano Island, Banff and Melbourne, Australia. Her photograph Twisted Metal was a winner at the national competition La puissance au féminin in 2003.

With this new series of photographs, Debeugny explores the idea that filters can be subjects in themselves, as each layer adds new meaning to an image. She captures her subjects through natural filters found in the industrial neighbourhoods of Vancouver: shipyards, scrap yards and the back alleys of the east side. Using the harshness of broken glass or the stillness of wire layers, the photographs of Through offer diverse nuances of quality, their nature varying infinitely from a state of limpidity to one of opacity.

"Family, education and sociocultural settings are the filters or veils that colour and influence our experience and affect the clarity of our ideas. Natural filters illustrate the parallel between the subjectivity of photography and the way we observe, judge and interpret the world," says Ms. Debeugny.

Admission: Free

Information: contact Florence Debeugny at 604-251-1363 or florence@infoserve.net or go to www.photosbyflorence.com.