Co.Lab Gallery presents

DAMIEN GILBERT

WHERE COLOUR ENDS

Opening Friday, January 23, 2026, 7-10pm

Exhibition continues through Feb 4th, 2026

Where Colour Ends brings together a selection of photographic works developed over several years of exploration, travel, and visual storytelling. Rooted in landscape, architecture, and human presence, Where Colour Ends examines the emotional and narrative power of black-and-white imagery as a means of distilling experience to its most essential elements.

Through photography, Damien Gilbert explores the relationship between place, memory and movement; often drawing from environments shaped by time, weather, and human intervention. By removing colour, the work emphasizes form, texture, contrast, and light, inviting viewers to engage more deeply with mood and composition rather than surface detail. These images become quiet spaces for reflection, where scale, solitude, and subtle moments take precedence over spectacle.

Working across natural and urban landscapes, Gilbert’s photographs capture fleeting interactions between land and life, mist rolling across water, light cutting through shadow, structures weathered by time. The monochrome palette serves not as a limitation, but as a tool for focus, encouraging a slower, more deliberate way of seeing. Each image asks the viewer to pause, to look closer, and to consider what remains when excess is stripped away.

Damien Gilbert is a Thunder Bay based photographer and filmmaker whose work spans commercial production, documentary storytelling, and fine art photography. His practice is driven by a deep connection to place and a fascination with movement, travel, and the natural world. Through his imagery, Gilbert seeks to balance technical precision with emotional resonance, creating work that feels both grounded and expansive, personal yet universal.