Joey Podlubny

Podlubny has been a photojournalist since 2000 working for newspapers,

magazines, governments, NGO’s and other clients across North America.

He has received many awards for his photography and his images have

been used in art galleries, museums, books, private collections, and as

public art. His first long term project was documenting street people in

Calgary. For over five years, Podlubny followed hundreds of street people,

jumped in garbage bins, picked bottles, cigarette butts, and documented

the human beings behind homelessness. He created a book entitled

“83 Cents” which he donated all proceeds to the Mustard Seed a homeless

shelter in Calgary.

His photography and his goals are aligned to promote dialogue, create awareness

and push through the limiting beliefs many people have. “When I discover

that there is a lot more behind something than what I was told or believed it’s

where I am drawn to. To understand what the truths might be, and help open

my mind to see what we can learn from it. We are all human beings but we treat

each other so differently. I like to look at the pathways we go down and I think

why do we have to think anything at all? Why can’t it just reveal itself to an open

mind that is not hanging on to what it might be or what we think it is. Lets let

go and rediscover it for ourselves so that we know what it is as a human being.”

Tackling the truths about First Nations people was a bigger task than Podlubny

realized. There are many limiting beliefs about each other that need to be

addressed. Podlubny is available for discussions about the agreements we

live under and about overcoming the limiting beliefs and barriers that are in

place so we can come up with solutions that help us achieve reconciliation.

Podlubny currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with his wife and

two children.