When I was a kid, I had an impressive collection of novelty erasers. Every time I’d travel I’d buy an eraser as a souvenir. My collection was a joy-filled catalogue of my life, my preteen pride and joy.
Cedric Sequerra, a Montreal photographer, owns a variety of collections—trading cards, Funko Pops, esoteric books and VHS tapes—that would put my old box of erasers to shame. He has photographed his collections in a dazzling Pop Art style and, this summer, they will be on display, in large-format prints, at the Beauchamp Art Gallery in Toronto.
The show doesn’t only feature his own stuff. He’s taken cool, technicolor pictures of other people’s collections, too. One shows a radiant collection of iconic cereal boxes. Another one is an assembly of Nike running shoes, tangled up together in a flamboyant pile. At Maclean’s, we found his photos so delightful that we are featuring them in the upcoming July issue of the magazine, on newsstands June 13.
–Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief
