A 20/20 event with The Boreal Collective
Hosted by Alison Nordström
April 30, 2014 from 7:00–9:00 PM

  • Deer (2011) by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

    Deer (2011) by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

  • Garnet Ahyasou hunts on Fort McKay's Moose Lake (2013) by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

    Garnet Ahyasou hunts on Fort McKay's Moose Lake (2013) by Aaron Vincent Elkaim

  • Truck Fire, Michoacán, Mexico (2013) by Brett Gundlock

    Truck Fire, Michoacán, Mexico (2013) by Brett Gundlock

  • Fiesta, Michoacán, Mexico (2012) by Brett Gundlock

    Fiesta, Michoacán, Mexico (2012) by Brett Gundlock

  • A Mennonite church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2012) by Ian Willms

    A Mennonite church in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2012) by Ian Willms

  • A Mennonite massacre site near Zaporozhye, Ukraine (2012) by Ian Willms

    A Mennonite massacre site near Zaporozhye, Ukraine (2012) by Ian Willms

  • Innu boys shoot geese, Natashquan, Quebec (2013) by Johan Hallberg-Campbell

    Innu boys shoot geese, Natashquan, Quebec (2013) by Johan Hallberg-Campbell

  • The end of the road, Natashquan, Quebec (2013) by Johan Hallberg-Campbell

    The end of the road, Natashquan, Quebec (2013) by Johan Hallberg-Campbell

  • Clarence at home, Aamjiwnaang, Canada (2012) by Laurence Butet-Roch

    Clarence at home, Aamjiwnaang, Canada (2012) by Laurence Butet-Roch

  • Mckay in his bedroom, Aamjiwnaang, Canada (2013) by Laurence Butet-Roch

    Mckay in his bedroom, Aamjiwnaang, Canada (2013) by Laurence Butet-Roch

  • Cayeyo, La Ley del Monte (2012) by Mauricio Palos

    Cayeyo, La Ley del Monte (2012) by Mauricio Palos

  • Dead dogs at Cayeyo´s ranch, La Ley del Monte (2012) by Mauricio Palos

    Dead dogs at Cayeyo´s ranch, La Ley del Monte (2012) by Mauricio Palos

  • Outskirts of Petrozavodsk, Russia (2013) by Scott Brauer

    Outskirts of Petrozavodsk, Russia (2013) by Scott Brauer

  • Vladimir Putin's annual press conference in Moscow, Russia (2012) by Scott Brauer

    Vladimir Putin's annual press conference in Moscow, Russia (2012) by Scott Brauer

  • Mom, Sa Pa, Vietnam (2011) by Tony Luong

    Mom, Sa Pa, Vietnam (2011) by Tony Luong

  • Grandfather after Meds, Vinh Long, Vietnam (2011) by Tony Luong

    Grandfather after Meds, Vinh Long, Vietnam (2011) by Tony Luong

The Boreal Collective, hailing from Canada, and their New England friends invite you to 20/20, an evening of inspiring talks. Within an hour, you will hear from eight photographers on a wide-range of topics: from what moved them to undertake a certain project to the means they use to engage a wide audience. Each speaker will have twenty slides that automatically advance every twenty seconds to share their passion and approach. It will leave you breathless and exhilarated, as if you had just completed a round of speed-dating. Afterwards, stick around to mingle with the photographers in a laid-back atmosphere.

The Boreal Collective is a dedicated group of ten photographers committed to producing compelling stories and devising innovative ways to engage with their peers and the wider public in hopes of fostering a greater social consciousness in their communities and around the globe. For this event, they are partnering with like-minded photographers from New England.

Sponsored by

Petit Robert Bistro

Speakers

Scott Brauer

Born in Germany, Scott Brauer grew up in various locations in the United States before settling in Boston. After interning at photo agencies such as VII and Black Star, he worked for several local newspapers before moving to China in 2007 where he stayed until 2010. Alongside his thriving photographic practice, he also edits the photojournalism blog dvafoto, which he founded with photographer and Boreal member Matt Lutton.

Laurence Butet-Roch

Hailing from Montreal, Canada, Laurence Butet-Roch is a freelance photographer, a photo editor for French magazine Polka and a contributor to the British Journal of Photography. Her personal photographic works examine the relation between economic prosperity and the cultural, physical and psychological well-being of individuals and communities.

Aaron Vincent Elkaim
Aaron Vincent Elkaim

Aaron Vincent Elkaim studied anthropology in his hometown of Winnipeg, Canada before turning to photography, which he studied at Loyalist College in Ontario. He is convinced that the greatest photography is open-ended. He doesn’t believe in a beginning, middle and end to a photo story but wishes to illuminate it, urging the viewer to ask questions rather than providing answers.

Brett Gundlock
Brett Gundlock

Based in Toronto, Canada, Brett Gundlock is a founding member of the Boreal Collective. After working for three years as a staff photographer the National Post, he struck out on his own to explore subcultures. Skinheads, 2010 G-20 detainees, and recent immigrants are several of the marginalized groups that he has worked with. His work lies at the intersection of journalism and art.

Johan Hallberg-Campbell
Johan Hallberg-Campbell

Johan Hallberg-Campbell was born in the Highlands of Scotland and has been living and working in Canada since 2007. He is a Graduate of The Glasgow School of Art and a member of the Boreal Collective.  As a freelance photographer, he has worked for numerous publications and institutions worldwide. As a Curator, he has curated 45 photographic exhibitions showcasing the works of local, national and international photographers.

His documentary work focuses on capturing the visual manifestation of the latent concept of “Place”. Exploring what it means to belong to a community and have traditions rooted in heritage, and alternatively what happens when one’s “place” is altered, removed, distorted and shifted.

Tony Luong
Tony Luong

Tony Luong is a photographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His photographs have been exhibited throughout Boston and New York. His editorial work has appeared in various magazines, such as Bloomberg Businessweek, Inc. Magazine, Stern (German), FT Weekend Magazine (London), among others. He is currently an MFA candidate at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts.

Justin Maxon
Justin Maxon

Justin Maxon was born in a small town in the woods of northern California. An artist and documentarian, he is committed to working on projects that reveal different variables of truth in humanities conflicted existence, and incorporate various artistic forms and expressions.

He has received numerous awards for his photography, from competitions like World Press Photo, UNICEF Images of the Year, and American Photo. He won the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year at the 2008 Lucie Awards; the same year he was named one of PDN’s 30 Photographers to Watch. He was selected to participate in World Press Photo’s 2010 Joop Swart Masterclass. He received the 2011 Cliff Edom “New America Award” from NPPA. He was also selected as one of Magenta’s 2012 Flash Forward Emerging Photographers. In addition, he has received grants from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, FotoVisura, the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Most recently, he was selected by Blue Earth Alliance for their fiscal sponsorship.

He has worked on feature and cover stories for publications such as TIME, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, MSNBC, Mother Jones Magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Fader Magazine, The New York Times, and NPR.

Mauricio Palos

Mauricio Palos is an independent documentary photographer and videographer working mainly in North and Central America. His work explores a variety of issues that are strongly related to the effects of violence on migration and exiles in the region due to political crisis, gang violence, narcotraffic, and local conflicts. His first book My Perro Rano, Central America Chronicles was published in 2010 by Editorial RM and was selected among the best photobooks of 2011 by the British Journal of Photography.

He is co-founder along with Sr. Click of Encuentro Fotografico Mexico, an annual Mexican photography festival aimed to train local photojournalists with a variety of workshops that goes from helping them to develop a personal vision in photography, to security and risk management workshops by working in conflict areas with the help of Article 19 and World Press Photo. Palos is based in the city of Merida located in the Yucatan Peninsula.

John Tully
John Tully

John Tully is a photographer based in Concord, New Hampshire. He holds a degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri. Before working on staff at the Concord Monitor in 2010, John was a staff photographer at the Midland Daily News in Midland, Michigan from 2008-2010. In 2006 he completed photo-intensive coursework at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Århus, Denmark. He grew up around the country but calls Virginia and the Northeast home. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal among others. When not making photos, he is a snowboard instructor during the winter and surfs during the summer.

Ian Willms
Ian Willms

Ian Willms is a documentary photographer who works to tell the stories of the disempowered peoples, abandoned environments and vanishing cultures that are casualties of greed and inequity. Ian works to document social and political power struggles within contemporary society, while bringing a personal and poetic approach to stories. Ian’s approach to his work is deeply influenced by the nature of his subjects and their surroundings.

Ian’s work has been exhibited in North America and Europe, including solo exhibitions at Pikto Gallery and Gallery 44 Centre For Contemporary Photography and group exhibitions at O’Born Contemporary and Bau-Xi Photo. Ian’s work has also been honoured and supported by the Magnum Expression Photography Award, the Pictures of the Year International competition, the Burn Emerging Photographer Fund, the National Magazine Awards and the Canada Council for the Arts.