Photography connoisseurs will recognize the names Annie Leibovitz, Ellen Von Unwerth, Pamela Hanson, Peggy Sirot and Tierney Gearon.

They are among the international female photographers featured in Beyond Compare, a travelling photography exhibition sponsored by Dove (part of the Unilever soap-and-cosmetics conglomerate) as a fund-raiser for the National Eating Disorders Information Centre. The show has been winding its way through six Canadian cities, in environments ranging from public arcades to convention centres and shopping malls.

It will also touch down in Amsterdam and Lisbon. The photos are displayed on easily reconfigurable, modular platforms combining an easel and a retro-modern lampshade.

There’s more to this lampshade than meets the eye. A white outer shade shields four halogen bulbs that swivel to focus on the artwork. A light-blue inner shade conceals incandescent bulbs that lend ambient light to the space while causing the shades to glow.

The blue shade becomes a ghosted volume within the white shade. The lamp stems disappear into the platforms, with wiring concealed under the flooring of sandblasted glass and white vinyl.

A scrim wraps the installation’s perimeter, its translucence allowing tantalizing glimpses inside to passers-by while exerting a strong sense of enclosure. That quality served the exhibition well at its Toronto venue, BCE Place. Though dwarfed by Santiago Calatrava’s cavernous, biomorphic Galleria, 3rd Uncle’s installation more than held its own.

Eppstadt: A travelling exhibition? That’s a difficult thing to do.

Burdi: It’s innovative.