Nance Fleming is a Toronto photographer and short story writer raised in the East Coast maritime tradition of music and storytelling. Her parents hail from Prince Edward Island and weekly ceilidhs with family and friends were part of the fabric of her childhood growing up: her mother sang and played guitar, her father was an old-school storyteller. Nance’s appetite for narrative began as an observer to these gatherings, watching the people who filled the space and sang and told the stories. Her "ear" for language and story led her to a degree in English Literature and the writing of short fiction, which eventually, and inevitably, seeped into her photography. And while her photography interest is varied, her "eye" for storytelling inclines her to seek out narrative when behind the lens; that intention is most evident in her street photography. In those moments of fortuity, when inspiration, observation, and narrative elements align, she hopes her images achieve the adage, "Every picture tells a story, don't it?"
"When I was a kid, I always wished I had one of those rings or cloaks that made you invisible. Then I realized years later, I am invisible behind a camera. I am a camera." Jill Freedman
EXHIBITIONS
2023 March 22 - April 30, Hart House Photography Exhibition, Toronto
2022 Treviso Photographic Festival, Group Exhibition, Treviso, Italy
2021 Treviso Photographic Festival, Group Exhibition, Treviso, Italy
2021 Artwrk Virtual Space, Davenport Collective Group Exhibition, online
2020/21 Ryerson Chang School of Photography Finalist, Toronto
2020 Women Street Photographers Group Exhibition, New York City, El Barrio Artspace
2020 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Group Exhibition Davenport Collective, Toronto
2019 Sunderland Hall Gallery, First Unitarian Church, Group Exhibition, Toronto
2018 Ryerson Change School of Photography, Group Exhibition, Toronto (Toronto Star Award Recipient)
2017 Ryerson Chang School of Photography Group Exhibition, Toronto
2015 Paul Hahn Studio, Group Exhibition, Toronto
IMAGES IN PUBLICATIONS
2020 Micheal Okumura, "One Body: Live a Healthy, Pain-Free Life Proactively"
2018 Michael Barclay, "The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip"