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Image Arts Faculty: Bruno Lessard

Dr. Bruno Lessard

Professor
EducationPhD in Literature and cinema (Université de Montréal), MA in English literature (Université Laval), BA in English studies (UQAC)
Phonex 556860

An award-winning researcher, Dr. Bruno Lessard is a Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University. Dr. Lessard is the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (University of Toronto Press, 2017), co-editor of the collection Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and author of Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labour (Hong Kong University Press, 2023). He has also co-edited a teaching media dossier on documentary pedagogy for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. His monograph on Franco-Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, titled Rithy Panh. La remise en récit du génocide cambodgien (Rithy Panh: Re-narrating the Cambodian Genocide), will be published by the Presses de l'Université de Montréal. As a photo-based artist, Dr. Lessard has focused on changing urban landscapes in Canada and China, and he has sought to revive night photography and non-figurative photographic practices within a documentary context. His creative work can be found here (external link) .