In the spring of 1985, an artists collective founded Vox
Populi, a non-profit organisation devoted to communication
and multidisciplinary artistic practices. In 1987, the
organisation redefined its mandate to concentrate exclusively
on photography. VOX organised the first edition of the
Mois de la Photo à Montréal, an international
biennial event, in 1989. In 2002, after having organised
seven editions of the event, it decided to make the Mois
de la Photo à Montréal a separate organisation
in order to enable both organisations to focus on expanding
their respective fields of activity.
Since the 1990s VOX has been expanding its activities
which join photography and new technologies; its most
important project in this respect was the Virtual Museum
of Quebec Photography. The year 2005 represents a turning
point for VOX with the creation of the Fonds
documentaire. Wishing to contribute to knowledge of
the history of the contemporary image and the issues it
raises, the centre offers the general public and the artistic
community access to an exhaustive and innovative virtual
collection of images and texts on Quebec photography.
The Fonds documentaire makes available free of charge
on the Internet the work of more than 120 Quebec artists,
from 1950 to the present.
In 2004, VOX pursued this goal by moving to Saint-Laurent
Boulevard and devoting itself to the image in a broader
sense. The issues VOX addresses thus derive from photography
and extend into the culture of the contemporary image.
