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AWARDS AND CONTESTS
SPAO Students Awarded Top Prizes
The Concours Lacroix contest was created by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in association with the SPAO (School of the Photographic Arts – Ottawa) to offer the winning student a trip to France as part of Les Rencontres d’Arles held in France. This year, Michelle Wilson was awarded first prize, second prize went to Greg Zenha, and third prize went to Magida El-Kassis. Applied Arts Magazine has also awarded SPAO students and an alumnus prizes for photography. In the student category, Joël Côté-Cright won for works from his Lost series and Michelle Wilson won for works from her Espousal series. Lynne Anderson, SPAO alumna and instructor in this fall’s part-time program, won the Applied Arts Excellence in Portraiture Award for works from her Trans series.
2008 Travel Photographer of the Year
The 2008 Travel Photographer of the Year competition (TPOTY) is now open for entries. This year’s competition offers three portfolio categories—Life, Call of the Wild, and Joy of Travel—, as well as a “One Shot” category—Destination Anywhere, and Young TPOTY. Also, for the first time, TPOTY has introduced a new category, “First Shot: Wish You Were Here”, for less-experienced photographers, and three special awards for the Best Single Image in a Portfolio. This year’s prizes include a place on the 2009 High & Wild Everest Skydive Expedition and Intrepid Travel trips to India and Cuba to see the mountain gorillas of Uganda. The winners will see their images feature in the Travel Photographer of the Year book. The competition closes on September 9, 2008. Further information and entry forms are available from www.tpoty.com.
Canada’s Next Top Mobile Photo Photographer of the Year, 2008
The winning photo of the Canada’s Next Top Mobile Phone Photographer of the year, 2008 contest was captured by Snezhana Zahorulko of Burnaby, B.C. with a Sony Ericsson K850i Cyber-shot 5-megapixel camera phone. Participants were tasked with capturing a moment in time. The creative shot of a child holding the sun in the palm of her hand netted Snezhana a vacation package valued at $10,000. The grand prize challenge was judged by a panel of celebrity judges including Canadian Idol winner Brian Melo, techno blogger Amber MacCarthur, and Photo Life contributor Peter Burian. To view the winning and finalist images, visit www.sonyericsson.ca/ca/thesearch.
2008 Worldwide WOW Photo Contest
Canadian Progress Club Elevate is presenting the 2008 Worldwide WOW Photo Contest with over $13,500 in prizes. Canadian amateur photographers are invited to submit their best photos into the five categories: Faces Around the World, Capture Canada, Global Travel, Nature, and Hope, Faith, Elevate. Photos will be judged by a panel of professional photographers and showcased at the 2008 Worldwide WOW Gala on October 23, 2008. Photographs can be submitted on-line at www.elevatecpc.ca or entries can be dropped off at The Camera Store in Calgary. Deadline is September 21, 2008.
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Canadian Photographer Becomes Members of ILCP
Victoria native Garth Lenz has been admitted to the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP). Garth joins fellow Canadians Chris Ranier, Paul Nicklen, and Wade Davis. Other members include National Geographic photographers Frans Lanting, Michael “Nick” Nichols, and Joel Sartore, wildlife photography icons Art Wolfe, Jim Brandenburg and Thomas Mangelsen, and fine-art landscape photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum. Created in 2005 with 40 of “The most acclaimed photographers of our generation”, the ILCP is the world’s premier association of wildlife and nature photographers who commit their work to conservation. For more information, visit www.ilcp.com.
TIPA 2008 European Photo & Imaging Awards
The Technical Image Press Association has selected the winners of the 2008 European Photo & Imaging Awards. Winners in the D SLR category are Sony Alpha 200 (Entry), Canon EOS 450D (Advanced), Nikon D300 (Expert), and Nikon D3 (Professional); the Sinar Hy6 series has been awarded Best Medium Format D System. In the compact category, winners are Samsung NV24HD (Ultra-Compact), Panasonic Lumix FX-500 (Compact), and Fujifilm S100 FS (Superzoom). The Innovative Design award went to the Manfrotto ModoSteady 585 camera support tool. Visit www.tipa.com for complete list of winners.
Px3 Photography Competition
The “Prix de la Photographie, Paris” (Px3) strives to promote the appreciation of photography, to discover emerging talent, and to introduce photographers from around the world to the artistic community of Paris. This year’s list of winners in the Advertising, Photojournalism, Book, Book Proposals, Fine- Art, Nature, and Portraiture categories include Canadian photographer Garth Lenz (second and third place Nature). The Photographer of the Year award went to Balazs Gardi, from Hungary, while Ryan Schude from Los Angeles received the Px3 Best New Talent Award. Winning photographs from this competition are displayed in Paris and published in the Px3’s Annual Book. For more information and to view all winning images, visit www.px3.fr.
EXHIBITIONS
Glaciers: Eamon Mac Mahon
The Pikto gallery in Ottawa is presenting photographic work by Eamon Mac Mahon until August 24, 2008. Since 2004, Toronto-based photographer Eamon Mac Mahon has spent three months of each year working in the wilderness of Northwestern Canada and Alaska. These slow journeys via bush plane have allowed him to photograph remote landlocked communities and the vast areas of uninhabited land surrounding them. Mac Mahon also spends much of his time creating video projections for stage productions and working as a cameraman on short films and documentaries. He was awarded the 2007 HP Prize for Photography and has recently been named one of PDN's 30 for 2008. www.pikto.com
Time Line: Sheila Metzner
The School of Visual Arts of New York presents Time Line: Sheila Metzner, a retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed photographer Sheila Metzner, which offers a comparative exploration of her artistic production over the past 40 years. The exhibition will be on view at the School of Visual Arts from September 3 to October 4, 2008, will include approximately 100 images drawn from Metzner’s personal collection, and will feature highlights from her work in several genres—fashion, still life, landscape and portraiture—each rendered in her signature, evocative style. The exhibition will also present several never-before-exhibited works, including selections from her latest series, 36 Views of Brooklyn Bridge. Metzner is well known for her use of the Fresson printing process “tirage au charbon”, a rare method of colour printing developed in France in 1900. www.sva.edu
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Photography 101
Presented at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown until September 28, 2008, this exhibition features iconic images as well as rarely seen and never-before exhibited works. Photography 101: Push the Button is a survey of more than 100 works by 60 Canadian and international artists and photographers spanning 140 years; a rare opportunity to view work by historically-significant artists and photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray. The exhibition’s subtitle is drawn from a comment by Irish playwright and novelist George Bernard Shaw to photohistorian Helmut Gernsheim. Asked why his interest in photography, Shaw responded, “I always wanted to draw and paint (...) but I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself [so] I bought a box camera and began pushing the button...” Alvin Langdon Coburn’s 1913 portrait of Shaw is included in the exhibition. More information can be found at www.confederationcentre.com.
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World Press Photo 2008 Exhibition Tour
During its 2008 exhibition tour, the winning images of the most renowned photojournalism contest will be featured in Ottawa from August 1 to 24, at the Canadian War Museum. The exhibition was officially opened in Amsterdam as part of the prize-giving ceremony in April and can be seen at venues around the globe until March of the following year. The tour takes the exhibition to over 80 cities worldwide and is still expanding. More information at www.worldpressphoto.com or www.warmuseum.ca.
Adam Harrison
The Monte Clark Gallery of Vancouver recently announced its representation of Vancouver-based artist Adam Harrison, whose work will be included in the gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Auto Show, from August 2 to September 5, 2008. Harrison will also be exhibiting a new body of work at the Monte Clark Gallery of Toronto in spring of 2008. His diverse subjects explicitly and implicitly explore the relationship between the viewer, the picture, and the production of art. Rooted fundamentally in photography, his work also includes other mediums. Adam Harrison was recently featured in Carte Blanche, an anthology of Canadian photography, and Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2007, both published by the Magenta Foundation. For more information, visit www.monteclarkgallery.com.
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Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created
The Musée d’art contemporain of Montréal is presenting one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever of contemporary Québec art and one of the largest exhibitions in the museum’s history. The inaugural edition of The Québec Triennial: Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed, runs until September 7, 2008. The exhibit will present some 135 works in various media—drawing, installation, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video—by 38 artists and collectives, including a program of video spot artworks created and screened in collaboration with Télé-Québec that was launched on May 14. Some of the artists featured in the exhibition are Doyon-Rivest, Isabelle Hayeur, Bettina Hoffmann, and Carlos and Jason Sanchez. More information at www.macm.org.
Almost Safe
The Monte Clarke Gallery of Toronto will also be featuring photographic work by Anthony Goicolea from September 11 to October 12, 2008. In his large-scale black-and-white photographs, the artist digitally composes elements culled from different locations and combines them into new topographies. Seemingly familiar elements such as telephone wires, power lines, and factories are juxtaposed in a way that twists reality and compresses space and time. The sky is a major character in many of the photographs. Thick-layered clouds dominate the composition or slide into the frame from above like an impending threat. Goicolea, whose photographs are often energized by paradoxes, also alludes to the history of cinema, including film noir, French new wave, and science fiction. www.monteclarkgallery.com
Bob Willoughy: Vintage Hollywood
From August 9 to September 20, 2008, the Stephen Bulger Gallery will be featuring a retrospective exhibition of Bob Willoughby’s images of Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in Los Angeles in 1927, Willoughby was the first “outside” photographer to be hired to find space for film studios in the magazines, starting in 1954, when Warner Brothers asked him to photograph Judy Garland in the final number of A Star Is Born. His 20-year collaboration with the publicity departments of all the major studios provided a new link to the great magazines of the day. www.bulgergallery.com
Roy Arden: The World Etc…
Featured at the Monte Clarke Gallery of Toronto until September 7, 2008, The World etc… presents Roy Arden’s latest graphic works (archival pigment prints) that are essentially digital collages, as well as recent small paper collages made from printed matter. Arden’s digital and paper collages come from his archives of images taken from books and magazines as well as his immense archive of images gleaned from the Internet. He mostly collects vernacular (non-art) photo images, and since photography is largely synchronous with modernity, his archive and the collages he makes from it reflect modern history. Roy Arden’s ongoing Web project, The World as Will and Representation – Archive 2007 (viewable at royarden.com), presents his personal archive of images gleaned from the Internet. www.monteclarkgallery.com
MISCELLANEOUS
New Web Site for Yousuf Karsh
A Web site dedicated to Yousuf Karsh has recently been launched at karsh.org. Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002) is one of the masters of 20th century photography. His body of work includes portraits of statesmen, artists, musicians, authors, scientists, and men and women of accomplishment. This official Web site, launched in honour of Karsh’s 100th birthday, aims to provide an intimate view of his work and approach to life. Visitors can view a selection of his work, consult the list of news and upcoming exhibitions, read his biography, and watch video clips of interviews.
Auction of the first digital Leica M8 closed at 24,000 Euro
The first series-produced Leica M8 has been sold for 24,000 Euro at the 13th Westlicht Photographica Auction. The successful bidder was a Leica collector from Russia. Leica Camera AG is donating the proceeds from the auction to the press freedom organization Reporters sans frontiers (Reporters without Borders). The 24,000 Euro bid for the first Leica M8 is probably the highest ever made for a digital camera. The unusually high price for this series-produced digital camera, which has the same functions as a series-produced model underlines the high status Leica M cameras have acquired over the past decades as cult and collector items.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Photokina
The 2008 edition of the Photokina World of Imaging fair will run from September 23 to 28, in Cologne, Germany. Photokina 2008 has come up with a structure to help exhibitors and visitors face new developments in imaging workflow by breaking things down into themes: Image Input, Image Storage, Image Processing, Image Transmission, and Image Output. The 2008 edition of this international biennial fair will feature more than 100 new exhibitors. For more information, and the complete list of exhibitors, visit www.photokinacologne.com.
X Ottawa Photography Festival
The second edition of Ottawa’s photography festival will take place from September 18 to 28, 2008. Photographic exhibitions and activities are scheduled throughout art spaces in the cities of Ottawa and GatineauThe X Festival aims to increase exposure for artists, while advancing photographic knowledge and creativity. The 2008 theme is “The Decisive Moment”, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth (August 22nd) of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century: Henri Cartier-Bresson. More information at www.festivalx.ca.
2008 Digital Photo Expo
The first annual Digital Photo Expo will debut in Calgary, Alta., on October 4 and 5, 2008, at the Telus Convention Centre. The event will host the largest photographic trade show in western Canada with a focus on the latest digital photographic technology, including exhibits offering products such as digital cameras, printers, software, computers, colour management, plus demonstrations, clinics, and seminars. For more information, visit www.2008digitalphotoexpo.com.
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