Wide View presents a unique perspective on contemporary issues brought to life by photojournalists from here and elsewhere. This new tool from Zoom Photo Festival is a publishing platform that will evolve over time and provide new resources for photojournalists so they may tell their stories in their own way.

COVID: The Invisible Enemy

Photos by Marie-France Coallier, Édouard Plante-Fréchette, Jacques Nadeau, Rocket Lavoie, Martin Tremblay et Michel Tremblay
Interview by Alexis Aubin

COVID: The Invisible Enemy   It is a brutal breakdown that struck us. Covid-19 has shaken all of our customs, our organization, our lives. In 2020, the timeline started to slip and we wonder when it will return to a somewhat “normal” course. Facing such a crisis, information is essential. […]

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Antonio Aragón Renuncio

Photos by Antonio Aragón Renuncio
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Childhood Lost Burkina Faso is the fastest growing gold producer in Africa. While industrial mines are the main players in this booming industry, artisanal and small-scale mining (EMAPE) remains common. They are so called because they have little or no machinery. They are clandestine mines that rely on physical effort. […]

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Mahsa Ahrabi Fard

Photos by Mahsa Ahrabi Fard
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Little Women   12 million underage girls are married every year worldwide, according to Unicef. Although marriage before the age of 18 is a human rights violation and most countries have laws prohibiting it, the custom is still excessively widespread in some regions. Iranian photojournalist Masha Arhabi Fard has been […]

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Sébastien Michaud

Photos by Sébastien Michaud
Interview by Alexis Aubin

The project Forest Gardener   With its 552 million hectares, Canada holds 28% of the world’s boreal zone. The impact of the boreal forest is global, storing carbon, purifying air and water, and helping to regulate the climate. It is also essential to the national economy, its hydroelectric potential and […]

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Simon Émond

Photos by Simon Émond
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Reshaping the sky   Certain discoveries are transforming the conception that humans have of themselves and their place in the universe. Galileo when he criticized geocentrism and proved that the Earth turned around the sun had the effect of a bomb. Christian beliefs were profoundly affected. In the face of […]

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Émilie Couture

Photos by Émilie Couture
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Where do I want to belong now? A question just as existential as the crisis that gave rise to it.   It is this questioning, a quest for oneself and one’s place in the world, that is at the center of Émilie Couture’s work presented as part of the Zoom […]

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Marie-France Coallier

Photos by Marie-France Coallier
Interview by Alexis Aubin

The Inhabitants of the Isle de Jean-Charles the first climate refugees in USA ?   While the orange light is still shimmering on the ground, the school bus stops for a moment at the side of the narrow road. The students get on and then the bus leaves for its […]

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Amber Bracken

Photos by Amber Bracken
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Who has the right to decide on Wet’Suwt’en Lands?   On the night of February 6, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested supporters of the Wet’suwet’en community who oppose the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline on their territory. Tensions had been rising since January as law enforcement […]

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Rohit Saha

Photos by Rohit Saha
Interview by Alexis Aubin

1528 is the alleged number of extrajudicial executions carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in Manipur State between 1979 and 2012. In some parts of India, law enforcement agencies are given special powers to maintain law and order in “disturbed states”. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (ASFPA) was […]

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Julie Langenegger Lachance

Photos by Julie Langenegger Lachance
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Memories   “Going South”, this expression is as general as it is specific. For Quebecers, it means spending a week in an all-inclusive package in the Caribbean or on the Pacific coast of Mexico. A few days where everything is already organized, plane, bus, hotel, buffet, all-you-can-drink bar, beach and […]

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Maude Plante-Husaruk

Photos by Maude Plante-Husaruk
Interview by Alexis Aubin

The Himalayan Gold Dream   Every year, thousands of Nepalese spend several months each year picking the “yarsagumba”, also known as the “caterpillar mushroom”. This product is composed of a mycelium that parasitizes the larvae of moths living in the Himalayan soil at altitudes above 3000 meters. The fungus kills […]

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Philippe Latour

Photos by Philippe Latour
Interview by Alexis Aubin

Mardi Gras Indians   Between 2018 and 2019, the photographer and musician Philippe Latour took the road for six months. Trained in musicology, he is interested in the place of arts and culture within communities. He traveled to New Orleans where he discovers the “Mardi Gras Indians”. According to this […]

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