1977    Born in Chicoutimi, QC, Canada

Education

2009  Postdoctorate (SSHRC) - York University

2006  PhD - Université de Montréal

2001  MA - Université Laval 

1999  BA - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

I am a photographic artist, scholar, and Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). I am one of the founding members of TMU's Documentary Media Research Centre: http://www.docmediacentre.ca

As shown in the projects featured on this website, I am interested in exploring critical topography through urban photography, night photography, and abstraction. My projects purposefully combine various genres such as urban landscape, still life, abstraction, and documentary to address the complex nature of any given place. 

Revalorizing night in fine art photography has been a major concern of mine over the past few years, as the “China by Night” and “After Hitchcock’s I Confess” series testify to.

I can be reached at: lessard[at]torontomu[dot]ca