HAUTE VITRINE showcases the work of Leslie Hossack. Her art has been exhibited in solo shows across Canada and in the United States.
Recently, Hossack’s focus has expanded beyond the geopolitical events of the last century to the present day, with an insistent examination of extreme weather events around the globe. Her latest series, INFERNO, exposes objectively measurable aspects of climate change such as disappearing glaciers, unprecedented wildfires, soaring temperatures, melting polar ice, rising sea levels and hazardous air quality. INFERNO is research-based and is comprised of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces.
While previously focused on the conflicted environment and powerful personalities of the mid-20th century, Hossack completed major studies of historic locations in Vancouver, Paris, Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Kosovo, London, Normandy, Vienna, the Channel Islands, Rome, Scotland and Copenhagen. Books by Leslie Hossack include Constructed Recollection; At Home: Vilhelm Hammershøi; Traced: The Arcane Legacy of Scotland’s Freemasons; Freud Through the Looking-Glass; H-Hour: Normandy 1944; Registered: The Japanese Canadian Experience During World War II; Charting Churchill: An Architectural Biography of Sir Winston Churchill; Testament: Leslie Hossack In Kosovo; Cities of Stone, People of Dust and Berlin Studien.
Hossack’s work has been recognized with many awards, and she has been interviewed several times on CBC Radio about her exhibitions. Leslie Hossack’s work is held in private collections at home and abroad, and in public collections including: Library and Archives Canada; Canadian War Museum; Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum; City of Vancouver; Nikkei National Museum, Burnaby; National Churchill Library and Center, Washington DC; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson AZ; Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge UK; and in the libraries of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; David Collection, Copenhagen; Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto and National Gallery of Canada.
HAUTE VITRINE 
Dear Leslie, your photographs are lovely (and haunting). Congratulations on this wonderful fork you’ve taken down the pathway of life!
Simon Goulet
I discovered your work in the course of research I am undertaking with regard to the 1936 Olympics. When I thought that nothing could top your shots of the Olympic Village I then found your Zehlendorf series and the links to discussion of typology.
And then… your very serious approach to the matter of chrome stools in diners! That took me back to my adolescence in the late fifties in the state of Maine.
Wonderful work! I wonder what you and your camera would make of Munich, which is where… for unaccountable reasons… this aging Scot seems to have settled. There are some amazing motifs here with intriguing historical undertones.
And… yes… I do know a bit about photography, having managed some wonderful photographers in Paris in the seventies.
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