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Sophie Hackett
Sophie Hackett is Curator, Photography, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. Hackett’s areas of specialty include vernacular photographs, photography in relation to queerness, and photography in Canada. She has curated and/or collaborated on a wide range of exhibitions and their accompanying publications, including What It Means to Be Seen: Photography and Queer Visibility; Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s; Diane Arbus: Photographs, 1956–1971; What Matters Most: Photographs of Black Life; Casa Susanna: on Photography and the Play of Gender; and, with Tal-Or Ben-Choreen, Building Icons: Arnold Newman’s Magazine World. Her published writing includes “Queer Looking” in Aperture, “Encounters in the Museum: The Experience of Photographic Objects” in The “Public” Life of Photographs, and “Bobbie in Context” in the award-winning volume Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography.
