Dr. Bruno Lessard

Ph.D., Université de Montréal

M.A., Université Laval

B.A., Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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 in 2025. 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 at www.brunolessard.com (external link, opens in new window)