Inner Landscapes-Artist Talk

Presented within an integrated health clinic, this talk explores photography as a potential resource for cognitive and emotional well-being. In dialogue withneuroaesthetics, it considers how aesthetic experience may influence neural processing, stress regulation, and embodied perception. Rather than making clinical claims, it asks how photography might contribute to more balanced perceptual and emotional states.

INNER LANDSCAPES:

PHOTOGRAPHY, PERCEPTION,

& WELL-BEING

A Conversation & Exhibition

Part of the public programming of the Capture Photography Festival.

Sunday, April 26

5.30 pm-7.00 pm

painPRO Coal Harbour

535 Thurlow St suite 100

Vancouver, BC V6E 3L2

FREE EVENT

Dr. Stefano Gulmanelli is an Italian-Canadian photographer based in Vancouver. His work exploresperception and the narratives embedded in landscape and place. With a PhD in sociology and teaching experience at UBC, he brings an interdisciplinary perspective to visual storytelling.

Dr. Anthony McDougall has practiced chiropractic for nearly 30 years,integrating art into patient care and daily life. Through arts board service, collaborations with dancers, and exhibitions in his Italian studio, he has observed art’s powerful impact on well-being, an insight echoed by the emerging field of neuroaesthetics.