iGallery 44 Centre for Contemporary PhotographyFashion District
Boxing photographer Pete Doherty weaves ring images with photos of his dying parents and their Ontario town into a portrait of a life remade by loss.
Seven small photographs run in one strip at eye level, then the wall goes blank for a few steps before the next seven. Pete Doherty's dealer, Stephen Bulger Gallery, lists the series this way: sequences of seven pigment prints, each image about postcard size.
Doherty photographed boxing for decades. When his father had a stroke and his mother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, he photographed them as they declined, and both died within a year. The strips mix ring pictures with his family, their Ontario town and its landscape: in one, open water and a house with a car out front sit beside a ring scene under blue light. You walk them in order down the Production Gallery, a long white corridor.
No critic has reviewed it yet. It's free, open Tuesday to Friday 11 to 5 and Saturday 12 to 5, until 20 February 2027. The wall text places Gallery 44's other spaces on Level 1, so this is a separate stop.
You'd rather not spend an afternoon with photographs of a parent's illness and death.