Margaret Thompson, 2024–25

Margaret Thompson is a photographer and researcher based in Montreal, Québec. Her career has ultimately been shaped by the quest to bring more transparency to areas of restricted knowledge. From questioning the limits of the Canadian Access to Information Act in journalistic practice to visually exploring the often-sheltered happenings of socially removed spaces—from remote Indigenous communities to neurodiverse communities, to the privacy of people’s bedrooms—her work seeks to cut through institutionalized, standardized, and conventional portrayals to showcase the integrity, humanity, and compassion of life experienced by those most often only seen from the outside.

Selected Publications

• Thompson, Margaret, Elyse Amend, and Luisa Marini. “Canadian Access to Information and Journalism: Obstacles and Opportunities.” Facts & Frictions: Emerging Debates, Pedagogies and Practices in Contemporary Journalism 1, no. 1 (2021).
• Thompson, Margaret. “Getting the Most Out of Known Unknowns: How the Access to Information Act Impacts Journalistic Practice.” MA thesis, Concordia University, 2019.