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Associate Curator, Photography<\/h4>\n

I was in my twenties when I fell in love with a book of Edward Steichen photographs. I had been more interested in drawing, but these photographs really affected me and made me want to work in the medium myself. Strangely, I was certain this passion for photography would last the rest of my life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Samson joined the McCord Museum team in 2006. She is responsible for developing and disseminating the Photography collection, which contains over 2.1 million images, including the Notman Photographic Archives. These photographs document 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> century society in Canada, primarily in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Upon her arrival at the Museum, she organized the symposium Images of Society: Variable Trajectories<\/em> (September 2007), the first time that the McCord Museum had joined forces with academia to examine the field of photography. Since then, she has curated the Museum’s numerous photography exhibitions, notably the annual outdoor exhibitions on McGill College Avenue that showcase various facets of the collection.<\/p>\n

In 2017, she received an award of excellence from the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des mus\u00e9es du Qu\u00e9bec (SMQ) for the exhibition Notman, A Visionary Photographer<\/em><\/a>, along with the Award of Outstanding Achievement in Research \u2013 Cultural Heritage from the Canadian Museums Association (CMA) for the accompanying exhibition catalogue published under her direction.<\/p>\n

H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Samson earned a PhD in art history from Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, receiving a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Her dissertation examined the influence of identity photography on portraiture from the 1980s to 2000s. She also graduated from the University of Ottawa Department of Visual Arts with a specialization in photography.<\/p>\n

At the same time, she did graduate studies in experimental psychology at the University of Ottawa and the University of Nice. After living in France for several years, she made a major shift and reoriented her work towards art history and photography. Her current interest in portrait photography as a means of expressing narrative identity is inspired by her background in both psychology and photography, and the McCord Museum’s photography collection offers an exceptional research opportunity.<\/p>\n

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