This month’s Member Milestones spans public art, photojournalism, and illustration—three artists whose work is landing in front of new audiences right now. A double-exposed photograph becomes a public art installation. A year-long documentary project earns a place in The New York Times. A three-year archive of sketchbooks debuts as an artbook at Prairie Comics Fest. Here’s a closer look at the vision and cultural impact behind each one.
Format has always believed that a platform is only as powerful as the people who call it home. This month, we’re reminded why that belief holds—three extraordinary artists are making their mark on the creative world, and we couldn’t be prouder to be the place they choose to share their work.
Jenna FitzGerald’s Double-Exposed Photography Goes Public at Artscape Youngplace
Jenna FitzGerald’s double-exposed 35mm photograph is now installed on a billboard at 180 Shaw Street, outside Artscape Youngplace, on view through the end of September as part of the Critical Distance Centre for Curators’ public art program.
The Toronto multidisciplinary artist works at the intersection of technology and nature, moving between photography, web design, and 3D modelling. This piece layers a blue picnic blanket covered in foraged mushrooms—shot on a group hike outside Toronto with fellow OCAD students and fungi guides—over two frames taken in Mexico City: a skyward shot of a lamp fixture and a view of the courtyard at the Museum of Anthropology. The blanket appears to float, suspended between two cities and two ways of seeing. Writer Annapoorane Rajagopal Valarmathy penned an accompanying essay for the installation.
On her Format portfolio, built on the Tema de gracia, FitzGerald organizes her work by medium—letting photography, web design, and 3D work each hold their own space. It’s a fitting counterpart to a piece built on layering different tools and materials.
Paola Chapdelaine’s Yearlong Scouting Project Lands in The New York Times
Paola Chapdelaine’s photographs from her yearlong documentary project, Troop 163, are featured in The New York Times Opinion section, in the article “When Girls Get to Be Boy Scouts.”.”
The French photojournalist and documentary photographer is based in the New York area and a member of Women Photograph and NPPA. With a background in political science and urban development, she moved into photojournalism in 2020 and received the Director’s Fellowship from the Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography. Her reporting spans social and political issues across the United States—youth in the digital age, community violence intervention, the American political divide—and climate stories like the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, with work in The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, NBC, Politico, and The Guardian.
In March 2025, Chapdelaine began documenting Troop 163, the all-girl Boy Scout troop of Closter, New Jersey—part of Scouting America since the organization opened to girls in 2017. She followed the troop through weekly meetings, excursions, and merit badge requirements, and was eventually invited by Scoutmaster Dr. Song to teach the girls the Photography merit badge herself. The featured image captures Jemima and Evelyn at a Court of Honor on September 27, 2025, as they became the troop’s first two female Eagle Scouts. Chapdelaine plans to keep following the troop.
Su cartera Format, basada en el Horizon Left theme, gives visitors room to move through her strongest images at their own pace, with captions adding context along the way—a pace that suits a project built over more than a year of earned trust.
Wenting Li Turns Three Years of Sketchbooks Into an Artbook at Prairie Comics Fest
Wenting Li’s new artbook, memory ~ archive, exhibits at Prairie Comics Fest in Winnipeg this September—three years of drawings and comics distilled from seven sketchbooks into a single zine.
The illustrator is based in Tkaronto’s west end by way of Chengdu, China—never not drawing, never not observing the world around them. Working across print and digital publication, drawing and painting, installation, comics, and murals, their practice moves through recurring questions: how to read a landscape, the nature of data storage and digital garbage, communally possible futures, collecting, drawing from memory, and specificity in how stories get told.
The sketchbooks were carried between southwestern Ontario and Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China. Working from both observation and memory over that span, Wenting lets the line between what’s remembered and what’s imagined become a shifting marker—asking, in effect, what the real distance is between memory and archive. The exhibition runs September 5-6 at the Manitoba Museum for Prairie Comics Fest.
Wenting’s Format portfolio, built on the Tema del Amazonas, puts the full colourful range of their practice on display right on the home page—a fitting echo of memory ~ archive itself, which pulls years of sketchbooks spanning multiple mediums into one place without flattening what made each one distinct.
Por qué son importantes estas carteras
Every member featured this month is doing something that goes beyond technique or aesthetics. They are using their practice to document communities, hold public space, and preserve memory in ways that outlast any single project or exhibition.
Eso es lo mejor de un portafolio: no sólo una colección de trabajos, sino una tarjeta de visita visual que le dice al mundo quién eres y qué representas.
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