Flash Forward 2010 Group Show

Emerging Photographers from Canada, the UK & the USA

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Curated by: MaryAnn Camilleri, Myrabelle Charlebois & Aaron Schuman
Location TBA

• Official opening and celebration 7–10 PM
• Exhibition open daily 12 PM–7 PM

Curatorial Statement

There could be no Flash Forward Festival without this six-year-old annual competition showcasing the best emerging photographers from Canada, the USA and the UK. Each year, after a call for entry to emerging photographers, curators from each of the participating countries review the submitted work and identify those young people that they believe show great promise as professional fine art or documentary photographers. This exhibition and supporting publication show the result of that process.

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

Featured Artists:

Curator Biographies

MaryAnn Camilleri

Founder and Executive Director, The Magenta Foundation
Co-Director, Flash Forward Festival

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 and Sandy Nicholson. New titles by Jack Burman, Greg Girard and Robert Bourdeau are on the way, along with some international collaborations that are currently in development.

MaryAnn may be best known for championing emerging photographers through the popular Flash Forward annual competition and its new festival component, the biennial Flash Forward Festival.

MaryAnn keeps The Magenta Foundation connected with its community of supporters and artists through the online arts journal, Magenta Magazine Online, and a web-based YouTube channel, Magenta Television.

Myrabelle Charlebois

Photo Editor, enRoute Magazine, Montréal

Myrabelle Charlebois has worked on different projects related to photography or publishing in collaboration with organizations such as Vox Contemporary Image, Pastèque publisher, Rencontres d’Arles photo festival, Slideluck Potshow Montréal, Baillat, Cardell & fils and Photomathon. She is currently the photo editor of enRoute magazine. The images produced under her mandate have won several awards including Lux Awards, National Magazine Awards and Applied Arts.

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. Having assisted various photographers — most notably Annie Leibovitz and Wolfgang Tillmans — Aaron began to pursue his own freelance career in 2000. 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 also a 2009-10 Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Arts University College at Bournemouth, a Lecturer at the University of Brighton, and is also the founder, director and editor of the online photography journal, SeeSaw Magazine (www.seesawmagazine.com). For more information, please visit: www.aaronschuman.com.