Dr. Bruno Lessard is an Associate Professor in the School of Image Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.  After completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Lessard went on to a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at York University.  Dr. Lessard is the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (University of Toronto Press, 2017), and co-editor of the collection Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is currently writing a book on Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing titled Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labour. As a photo-based artist, Dr. Lessard has focused on changing urban landscapes in Canada and China, and he has sought to revive night photography and non-figurative photographic practices within a documentary context. His work can be found here: www.brunolessard.com, external link, opens in new window