Joshua Radu was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and moved to Montreal, Quebec when he was very young. From early childhood, he demonstrated an interest in fine details of the natural world -- an interest that has since developed into an appreciation of patterns and textures of external reality.
A frequent visitor to galleries and museums, Joshua Radu is also an avid traveler to places as distant as England, Russia, Botswana and the Arctic Circle in Norway. To study and learn from the masters of images, he has visited the treasures of the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican. He says, "Carrying a camera gives me an excuse to go places and see things that the general public ordinarily doesn't visit or see."
Radu looks for a picture that is very simple, yet very detailed and timeless in its interest. He wants a picture that will come out well and make people really see! He prefers black and white compositions because he feels the viewer has to look at details rather than concentrating on the color our eyes see all the time.
Working in all areas of freelance photography (photojournalism, portraiture, events/galas, fashion, weddings, and digitial photography), Radu's love is Documentary Photography where you spend time with the subject and get to know it well. He wants to bring a different approach to photography. A look at human interaction inspired by visual context mixed with light, movement and energy.
"I try to take a picture that tells a subtle story, or keeps you looking or questioning. Composition is very important for me. That is when origianlity and light come together to make a perfect black and white photo. I am always looking for a new way to see life." Joshua Radu
PUBLICATIONS AND CONTESTS
Joshua Radu has won several contests with his black and white prints. He won the Annual Photo Life Photography Contest with his photo of workmen replacing lights on the St. Charles Bridge in Prague. He has also been exhibited in Central America and his work has appeared in a variety of publications and books, such as McGill: the First Fifty Years, Matrix magazine, Saturday Night, Regards du Québec and Quill & Quire.
EDUCATION
• Dawson College,Westmount, Quebec D.E.C. (Photography) • John Abbott College Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec D.E.C. (Social Science)
RECENT EXPERIENCE
• Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts Montreal, QC / Photography Lab Technician • Leave Out Violence (LOVE) Project / Volunteer (Photo Lab) • Dawson College Photography Department • Lab Assistant, part-time Photography (private lab) • Lab Assistant (b & w) • Photographer (freelance)
PUBLICATIONS
• Montreal Mirror (1998,2006) • Montreal Superpages phone book 2003 (Front cover) • Montreal : The Unknown City by K and D Gravenor 2002 • Regards du Québec Un album de Famille • Saturday Night. • Hour Magazine (Montreal) • Sept jours (Quebec’s #1 weekly magazine ) • Dawson College • Photo Digest. Magazine • Matrix. Magazine-Featured photographer. • The Reporter (Newspaper), McGill University. • McGill: the First Fifty Years (McGill-Queen’s University Press). • The Gazette (Montreal newspaper) • Books in Canada Magazine • Index Magazine • Annuaire des cégeps (college magazine) • John Abbott College, Documentation & Library Systems (publicity brochure) • Quill & Quire magazine
AWARDS & GRANTS
• Honourable Mention The Globe & Mail photo contest 2005 • PhotoLife National Photography Contest (1998), Honorable Mention • Quebec Arts Council, Short-term Grant, August 1994 (Quebec Rodeo) • PhotoLife, 18th Annual Photography Contest (1994), Grand Prize Winner and Honorable Mention in Travel category • YMCA 1992 Photography Contest, “Life in Montreal”, selected for exhibition in • Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Montreal • Faces of Canada Contest, Finalist, 1992 • PhotoLife, 16th Annual Photography Contest (1992), Honorable Mention
EXHIBITIONS
• 13 photographes Vente d’oeuvres photographiques Blowup photogalerie 1 dec 03 -11 jan 04 • Joshua Radu et Michelle Marsolais Dorval Cultural Centre 10 au 24 septembre 2003 • Joshua Radu “ Photos” Galerie La Seigneurie , Chateauguay ,Que. 20 mars au 17 avril 2002 • The Personal Lure of Photography Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts Sept 13 - Oct 28 2001 ( group show ) • 20/2000 Art Sutton, Sutton (Quebec) Sept & Oct. 2000 • Pass Art 2000, Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec), 3 mai-3 sept 2000 • Joshua Radu , Espace Trois, Saidye Bronfman Centre ,April 4 - 30 , 2000 • “New Works”, Gallery 89, Cégep John Abbott College, Nov 11 - Dec 13, 1999 • “Le Rendez-vous des jeunes Créateurs en Art”, Marché Bonsecours (Montreal), November 4-7, 1999 • “New Work”, Mois de la Photo, Montreal, September 1999 • “Faculty Exhibit,” Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, June 1998 • Claremont Restaurant (Westmount), 1998 • Galerie l’Unison (Montreal), May/June 1995 • Exhibition, Hour Magazine (Montreal), February 1995 • "Safari: Work by Joshua Radu," Kirkland Library, Feb 1995 • "Recent Work by Joshua Radu," Gallery 89, John Abbott College (Ste. Anne de Bellevue, QC), August/September 1994 • "Recent Photographs by Joshua Radu," Beaconsfield Public Library, January 1994 • La Civilisation Grecque Macédoine exhibit, 1993
MEDIA COVERAGE
• L’ HEBDO Mekinac- Des Chenaux LE RODEO SOUS TOUS SES ANGLES • Samedi 14 septembre 2002 • Cowboy at Heart (Cow-boy dans l’âme) • Musee de la Civilisation , Quebec City April 10, 2002 to March 15, 2003 ( 4 photos) The Mountain Lake Arts Auction Montreal McCord Museum Preview Exhibition—March 22-24 2002 (PBS) • CBC radio- Montreal , All on a Weekend ,Sunday Morning September 17 2000 • La fievre du rodeo...tout pres de chez-nous,” Septembre 2000, Photo Selection Magazine • par Joshua Radu , pages 40,41,42 and five photos. • Joshua Radu Exhibit,” May 2000, PhotoLife • Radio-Canada.ca - Info-Culture, ARVIL 2000 • Globe TV (Montreal) What on in arts , April 5, 2000 • Rodeo “speedeo-deo” Arts this week , Montreal Mirror , March 30, 2000 • Art Talk,” CBC Radio, August 1999 • Photographer shoots for the top,” The Chronicle, July 20, 1994 • A Photographer going places,” The Gazette, August 4, 1994 • Photographs also form parts of private collections.
