Photographer · Printmaker · Crossfield, Alberta
About
i.m. ruzz is a self-taught Canadian photographer whose work finds beauty in the ordinary landscapes and lived places of Alberta.

I have spent more than twenty years photographing Alberta: its prairies and towns, the weather moving across them, and the small signs of people living here. I am drawn to places that might be passed without a second look—and to the moment light, distance, or stillness reveals how beautiful they are.
I make photographs for the pleasure of looking. I want them to give you somewhere to linger, and perhaps the same feeling I have when making them: gratitude for having been here to see it.
Each print is made slowly and with care, as a physical object meant to be lived with. Together, the photographs form an ongoing portrait of this place, built over twenty years and still unfolding.
Permanent installation · Calgary
Street photography at architectural scale.
Alt Hotel Calgary holds a permanent installation drawn from years of photographing downtown: an Altexpo lobby mosaic of more than 170 images and seven exterior prints produced at building scale.
See the Alt Hotel project →
Selected record
Where the work has lived.
- Permanent installation
- Alt Hotel, Calgary
- Magazine photography
- Alberta ViewsFeatured photography
- Alberta Magazine AwardsYYC Library · Nominee, Photograph: Landscape, Still Life and Architecture
- Book-cover photography
- Road to Little StarZ. D. Wittner · 2023
- Existence CostsBrad Simkulet · 2007
- Poison ShyStacey Madden · 2012
- Print practice
- A long-running studio print practice, with work held in private collections
Selected highlights from a wider practice spanning editorial work, commissioned projects, installations, and printmaking.
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