Carol Payne is a co-curator of the exhibition The Other NFB and author of The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013). Her talk will address the NFB’s unique position in the history of Canadian visual culture as a conveyor of shared values and governmental programs in photographic form.

Payne is Associate Professor for Art History at Carleton University. Before joining that faculty she was a curator at the former Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. She is a co-editor (with Andrea Kunard of the NGC) of The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada, 2011, among other publications. Between 2005 and 2014 she was the Principal Investigator in a SSHRCC-funded collaborative photo-based research project with the Inuit training program Nunavut Sivuniksavut and Library and Archives Canada and is currently editing a book about that research tentatively called Photographs, Generations and Inuit Cultural Memory.