2026 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography Artist Talk

Leighton Artist Studios is pleased to present an artist talk by Ryan Van Der Hout, recipient of the 2026 Barbara Spohr Memorial Award for Photography. During their awarded residency at Banff Centre, Van Der Hout will share insights into their interdisciplinary practice spanning photography, stained glass, and sculpture. Their work investigates transformation through processes of breaking and reassembly, creating luminous portraits and large-scale installations that trace both fracture and connection. During the residency, Van Der Hout will explore the intersection of geological and human time, integrating analog darkroom processes with stained glass techniques to create new works that collapse temporal scales into unified forms.