GRAFFITTI STAIRWELL, ACAD.

Photography: Marc Rimmer

For at least one of the 14 students graduating this May from the four-year Bachelor of Design in Photography at the Alberta College of Art and Design, the prospect of climbing the stairway to a successful career isn’t all that daunting. Attentive Swerve readers will be familiar with Marc Rimmer’s conceptually crisp portraits of Calgary’s diverse arts all-stars, including a
hard-scrubbing Lorrie Matheson, luminously limber dancer Leigh Allardyce and this week’s cover girl, Elinor Holt and her family band. And yes, that was the 22-year-old Rimmer who managed to shoot 24 people in two weeks for Swerve’s special Juno-linked cover story, “Music Lives Here”— at the same time as he was finishing the required coursework that put him at the top of his class, winning the inaugural Rosalee Hiebert Memorial Scholarship, as well as an Anvil Award in the Student Category at the 2008 Ad Rodeo.

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