Dr. Bruno Lessard
An award-winning researcher, Dr. Bruno Lessard is a Professor in the School of Image Arts at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He is the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (University of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Press, 2017), Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labor (Hong Kong UP, 2023), and Rithy Panh. La remise en récit du génocide cambodgien (Peter Lang, 2026). He has also co-edited the collection Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and a teaching media dossier on documentary pedagogy for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Recent book chapters have appeared in collections such as Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century: Movements, Genres, Intermedia (Routledge), Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art (Routledge), The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-Figurative Images and the Modern World (Routledge), and The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema (Oxford UP). 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.
2018 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scholarly, Research, and Creation (SRC) Award (tenured faculty category)
2014 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scholarly, Research, and Creation (SRC) Award (untenured faculty category)
2014 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Service Award (untenured faculty category)
2011 Â鶹ÊÓƵ Scholarly, Research, and Creation (SRC) Award (untenured faculty category)
- Documentary studies
- Research-creation
Dr. Bruno Lessard is the author of The Art of Subtraction: Digital Adaptation and the Object Image (University of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Press, 2017), Wang Bing: Chinese Documentary between History and Labor (Hong Kong UP, 2023), and Rithy Panh. La remise en récit du génocide cambodgien (Peter Lang, 2026). He has also co-edited the collection Critical Distance in Documentary Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), and a teaching media dossier on documentary pedagogy for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Recent book chapters have appeared in collections such as Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century: Movements, Genres, Intermedia (Routledge), Historical Narratives of Global Modern Art (Routledge), The Iconology of Abstraction: Non-Figurative Images and the Modern World (Routledge), and The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema (Oxford UP). 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.