Flash Forward 2011 Group Exhibition

Featuring Emerging Photographers from Canada, the UK & the USA

CURATED BY: JULIEN BEAUPRé-STE MARIE, MARYANN CAMILLERI & AARON SCHUMAN
OPENING NIGHT: JUNE 7, 7–10pm
LOCATION: Two Battery Wharf — Upper Floor

Curatorial Statement

The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward program is an annual competition that showcases the work being created by the very best emerging photographers from Canada, the USA and the UK. Every year, judges from each of the participating countries review submitted work and identify those young people that they believe show great promise as professional fine art or documentary photographers.

The Flash Forward 2011 Group Show features a select cross-section chosen from the bodies of work featured in the competition catalogue. The photography covers all genres from documentary, photojournalism and fine art studio practices and shows how each of these young photographers are affected and influenced by their mentors, interests and choices of subject matter.

The Flash Forward 2011 Group Show pays tribute to the diversity of the annual program and its growing profile, offering evidence that the best emerging photographers are at the cutting edge of the direction that photography will take in future years.

The Magenta Foundation gratefully acknowledges the nurturing support of Flash Forward Festival Presenting Sponsor TD Bank for its ongoing commitment to Flash Forward, in all its formats, since launching in 2004.

Featured Artists:

The following artists are featured in the Flash Forward 2011 Group Show:

Bright Spark Winner: Jessica Eaton, Canada

Curator Biographies

Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie


Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie is the Photo Editor at enRoute magazine. Commissioning emerging and established photographers both locally and internationally, the magazine has won several awards during his tenure – Applied Arts, Communication Arts and National Magazine Awards, to name a few. With a background in Art History and Communications, his interests lie in fashion photography and magazine media.

MaryAnn Camilleri

Founder, The Magenta Foundation
Director, Flash Forward Festival

After a ten-year experience at Magnum, NYC, MaryAnn Camilleri returned to Toronto in 2004 to establish The Magenta Foundation, Canada’s pioneering arts publishing house. With a mandate to promote Canada’s artists in the context of their international peers, The Magenta Foundation has released two volumes in its Carte Blanche series of books, Vol. 1: Photography and Vol. 2: Painting, as well as internationally reviewed, high quality publications for artists Greg Girard, Robert Bourdeau, and Jack Burman. Future multi-media projects include One Shot, focusing on the career of celebrity documentary photographer George Pimentel.

MaryAnn may be best known for championing emerging photographers through the popular Flash Forward annual competition and the recently launched festival component, Flash Forward Festival Boston.

MaryAnn keeps The Magenta Foundation connected with its community of supporters and artists through the online arts journal, Magenta Magazine Online, the web-based YouTube channel, Magenta Television, and its blog, Imprint: Tracking Magenta’s Flash Forward Photographers.

Aaron Schuman

Photographer, Writer, Editor and Curator

Aaron Schuman is an American photographer, editor, writer and curator based in the United Kingdom. He received a B.F.A. in Photography and History of Art from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and an M.A. in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London’s London Consortium in 2003. He has exhibited his photographic work internationally, and has contributed photography, articles, essays and interviews to publications such as Aperture, Foam, Photoworks, ArtReview, Modern Painters, HotShoe International, The British Journal of Photography, Creative Review, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times.  Schuman was the curator of Whatever Was Splendid: New American Photographs, one of the principal exhibitions at the 2010 FotoFest Biennial.  He is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton and the Arts University College at Bournemouth, and is the founder, director and editor of the online photography journal SeeSaw Magazine. For more information, please visit: www.aaronschuman.com.