DetourPhotography

DetourPhotography Detour Photography is Bri Vos of Alberta, Canada. www.detourphotography.ca Prints of my work are available upon request.

Detour Photography is a communication solutions company run by Bri Vos of Alberta Canada. Though I'm based in Edmonton, I have worked on dozens of projects across Canada and love using the vastness and beauty of this country's landscape as a context for my images and writing. When not in Edmonton, I can be found exploring this extraordinary world one country at a time.

Welcome baby Maren. You are already so so loved!
05/14/2026

Welcome baby Maren. You are already so so loved!

This is the last weekend to check out If You Think Your Happiness Is Important . Go soak in their cozy vibes, warm light...
04/25/2026

This is the last weekend to check out If You Think Your Happiness Is Important . Go soak in their cozy vibes, warm lights, and delicious eats before the show comes down on Wednesday night.

The title of the show - If you think your happiness is important - is drawn from a letter my father sent to me in respon...
04/20/2026

The title of the show - If you think your happiness is important - is drawn from a letter my father sent to me in response to the news of my separation and coming out as q***r. The full statement is “If you think your happiness and what you want is important, you are sorely mistaken.”

As a parent myself, I know it must require an incredible amount of pain and suffering to tell your child that their happiness is not valuable. Reflecting on this wound, each of the individual piece titles choose a different way to finish the sentence, “If you think your happiness is important…”. The answers reflect approaches that are deeply personal to me, but perhaps others may also find resonance in these ideas.

If we actually believe our happiness is important, what must we do to protect, honour, and pursue it?

Exploring this question in the context of the geography that I both long for and feel grief within has opened up new ways for hope, joy, and peace to exist in these spaces for me.

In light of anti-q***r rhetoric and legislation growing louder both above and below the 49th parallel, I wanted to create something that reaffirms that not only have q***r people always existed in all spaces, their joy and happiness belong there too.

Rural southern Alberta is often known for its conservative, religious, fairly homogeneous demographics but those are odd...
04/15/2026

Rural southern Alberta is often known for its conservative, religious, fairly homogeneous demographics but those are oddly juxtaposed with its geography. The unabbreviated openness, expansive scope, and limitless skies of the prairies exist without restriction. What may look to the untrained eye as monotonous flatland, is endlessly shapeshifting with the slightest alteration in the light’s angle and tone. And the sky is infinitely variable in its drama and expression.

Q***r author, Willa Cather, known best for her love of the prairies of the American mid-west wrote, “Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was far away.”

If You Think Your Happiness Is Important is presented in reclaimed window frames from abandoned prairie homesteads. Most...
04/08/2026

If You Think Your Happiness Is Important is presented in reclaimed window frames from abandoned prairie homesteads. Most of us who have grown up on the prairies have spent much time exploring these ubiquitous weathered farmhouses: combing through the leftovers of lives in kitchen cupboards, papers stacked in hallways, and broken bed frames leaning against walls. The dry wind preserves these time capsule-like spaces and standing in the living rooms, looking out the windows at the prairies beyond, it’s easy to feel part of an unending time and place. These frames are a tangible connection to that landscape.

The expansive images reach to the very edges of the frames but are restricted to their dimensions. This suggests that there is always more extending beyond what we can see. It’s up to the audience to determine whether the tension created by this uncomfortable or uplifting.

Original pieces from the show will be sold in this framing. Limited run prints are also available for purchase so they can be framed by the buyer in the style that best suits their preference.

There is grief in these pieces.After the end of my marriage and then coming out as q***r, l had to redefine my relations...
04/03/2026

There is grief in these pieces.

After the end of my marriage and then coming out as q***r, l had to redefine my relationship with the land where I felt most at home - rural southern Alberta.

The pain of judgement and disconnection is blended into these landscapes. But also threaded through them is healing, joy, and the certainty that the expansiveness of the earth can hold our endless diversity.

Our happiness belongs in all the spaces that feel like home.

Come see “If You Think Your Happiness is Important” this month.

***rjoy

It’s up! Go check out “If You Think Your Happiness Is Important” this month.
04/02/2026

It’s up! Go check out “If You Think Your Happiness Is Important” this month.

Lately I’ve been capturing some of the work that is going into an absolutely massive project is working on. Go give the...
02/19/2026

Lately I’ve been capturing some of the work that is going into an absolutely massive project is working on.

Go give them a follow to see what they do.

Peter & Ian. Sept 2025
09/20/2025

Peter & Ian. Sept 2025

Lately
02/13/2025

Lately

Address

Edmonton, AB

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when DetourPhotography posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to DetourPhotography:

Shortcuts

Share

Category