Yvan Bedard

Yvan Bedard was born and lives in a region of rivers, forests, and farms near Quebec City, Canada. In 2003, he adopted digital photography, and he has been making fine art prints since 2009. Bedard has been represented by art galleries in Canada since 2014. He participated in more than fifty solo and group exhibitions in cities like Quebec, New-York, London, Paris, Barcelona, Athens, and Melbourne to name but a few. His photographs have been published regularly in books and magazines in Canada and internationally. His work is in public and private collections in over twenty countries and has been licensed for many uses.

Following a career as an Emeritus university professor in cartographic database engineering and a scientific author and speaker, Yvan is now spreading his photographic passion through conferences and courses. Similarly to his scientific career, his photographic career has been recognized internationally. In 2024, he had received close to 100 awards from international organisations such as the Minimalist Photography Awards, the Fine Art Photography Awards, the Paris PX3 Photography Awards, and One Eyeland World Top 10 Photography Awards, among others. Bedard has been interviewed by various media in Canada, France, Japan, Russia, and the USA.

His vision emanates from his scientific approaches to describe geographical phenomena with computerized data. He detects details and abstractions, sharpness and ambiguity, as well as the temporality of everything he observes. Accordingly, he photographs intimate landscapes as much as grand vistas, and manifest scenes as well as mysterious ones. Trees and rock inspire him particularly, because he sees them respectively as symbols of one’s lifetime and of eternity. Winter also inspires him for its minimalist, almost black and white scenes when the sky is dramatic and full of grey clouds. Such winter scenes make him feel relaxed and in peace with nature.

His photographs are eminently subjective because aesthetics, emotion and imagination take precedence over documentary reproduction. He highlights what he perceives or imagines, without metamorphosing nature. This influences each of his steps, even when he transforms the pixels of his photographs in his studio into pigments on carefully chosen fine art papers and canvases.