Nathalie Damboise
A Walk Through Light

Nathalie Damboise develops a visual practice centered on the relationship between light, territory, and perception. Working primarily through panoramic photography, she constructs immersive images that challenge the conventional representation of historic urban spaces.

Her process is deeply experiential. Long walks, repeated observation, and attention to transitional moments — twilight, fog, snowfall, reflections, urban illumination — become essential components of her methodology. The city is approached not as a fixed architectural subject, but as a living and emotionally charged environment shaped by time, weather, memory, and human presence.

Influenced by both graphic design and cinematic atmosphere, her compositions emphasize spatial continuity, visual rhythm, and luminous texture. Increasingly interdisciplinary, her practice extends toward video, sound, and immersive storytelling in order to deepen the viewer’s sensory connection to place.

For more than two decades, Nathalie Damboise has been creating panoramic photographs that reveal the atmospheric and emotional landscape of Quebec City after dark.

Gallery

Artistic Statement

Walking Through Light

My work begins with walking.

For more than twenty years, I have explored the streets of Quebec City with a camera, often at night, searching for moments when light transforms familiar places into something unexpected.

Rather than documenting landmarks, I seek to reveal atmosphere. I am interested in the emotional dimension of urban space: the silence after snowfall, reflections on wet stone, the glow of streetlights on historic walls, and the subtle traces of human presence that remain long after people have passed.

Panoramic photography allows me to create immersive images that extend beyond a single viewpoint. By expanding the visual field, I invite viewers to inhabit the scene rather than simply observe it.

My photographs are an ongoing conversation between memory and place, heritage and contemporary life, permanence and transformation.

Portfolio

Night Panoramas of Old Quebec

A selection of panoramic photographs exploring:

  • Historic streets and architecture
  • Winter atmospheres
  • Urban light and reflections
  • Seasonal transformations
  • Heritage landscapes
  • The evolving identity of Québec City

Exhibitions & Recognition

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Québec la nuit (Jury Selection)
Series of twelve panoramic night photographs of Quebec City.
Galerie du Faubourg, Bibliothèque Saint-Jean-Baptiste (2006) and Bibliothèque Canardière (2006).

Temps d’espace (Jury Selection)
Twelve panoramic photographs created from the same viewpoint over a five-year period.
Quebec City Hall and Bibliothèque Aliette-Marchand (2010).

Duo Exhibition

Rencontre de visions urbaines
Thirty-three panoramic photographs presented with photographer Marc Pelletier.
Bibliothèque Étienne-Parent, Beauport (2008).

Awards

  • First Prize, Sainte-Foy–Sillery Borough, Quebec City Art Competition (2005–2006) for the panoramic photograph Lumière de Nuit.
  • National First Prize (Collegiate Category), Heureux d’un printemps, Québec in France (1999).

Collections & Publications

Selected works have been acquired by:

  • Fondation de l’entrepreneurship
  • Société d’art et d’histoire de Beauport
  • Service aérien gouvernemental
  • Private collections

Publications and media appearances include:

  • CV Photo Magazine
  • Québec Tourism publications
  • Radio-Canada
  • Le Soleil
  • Québec Urbain

Contact

Nathalie Damboise

Panoramic Photography • Visual Arts • Quebec City

Available for:

Artist talks and presentations

Fine art exhibitions

Cultural collaborations

Public art projects

Publications and licensing

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