TONY FOUHSE at Pikto (55 Mill, bldg 59), to May 29. 416-203-3443. Rating: NNN
For three years, Tony Fouhse has been visiting a street corner in Ottawa to take portraits of the local crack addicts. A professional photojournalist with a talent for stark hyper-realism, he makes people fairly pop out of the frame even as they seem ready to pop out of their own skin.
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You could argue that this kind of intense portraiture glamorizes human tragedy. Self-defeating melodrama and outsized delusions are the stuff of addiction, however, and they help make this series bracingly real.
