From March 11 to May 1, The Polygon Gallery presents Cloud Album, a new exhibition that celebrates a subject that has long captured the imagination of artists, scientists, and amateur photographers. The exhibition features more than 250 historically and culturally significant works drawn from the collection of the London-based Archive of Modern Conflict, an organization dedicated to the preservation of vernacular photographs, artifacts, and ephemera. Highlights include early experiments depicting clouds by photo pioneers like Gustave Le Gray; pre-photographic cloud studies by the great British landscape painter John Constable; exciting and previously unknown works unearthed through research into the history of meteorology; snapshots of cataclysmic mushroom clouds from atomic bomb tests; and views from Apollo 9 of a large storm system.

Visit thepolygon.ca/exhibition/cloud-album for more information. Admission is by

donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group.

Address: 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, V7M 3J4

Gallery hours: Wednesday, 10am–5pm; Thursday, 10am–8pm; Friday–Sunday, 10am–5pm

Photo credit: Anonymous, WWII Bomb raid on Moosbierbaum oil refinery, courtesy of Archive of Modern Conflict