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EXHIBITIONS
Evan Lee: Drawn from Memory
The Monte Clark Gallery of Toronto will be featuring a solo exhibition of new work by Vancouver-based artist Evan Lee, from May 1 to June 8, 2008. Shot over the past few years, Evan Lee’s recent black-and-white images were photographed in a near documentary style to capture elements of daily life. The people shown in his photographs, all familiar to the artist, result in a personalized portrayal of Vancouver. In addition to the images, Lee has produced a series of pencil drawings created from a photographic study of elderly Chinese women. www.monteclarkgallery.com
Over Under
The School of the Photographic Arts Ottawa (SPAO) is presenting aerial and underwater photography by Louis Helbig and Ric Frazier from May 2 to 13, 2008 at The Red Wall Gallery. The two photographers offer summer workshops at the SPAO. Their unique photographic viewpoints challenge common perspectives of the world around us, while inviting exploration and refreshing vision. www.spao.ca
Jeff Thomas: Don’t Mess with the Pediment
The Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto will be featuring works by American photographer Jeff Thomas, from May 3 to June 7, 2008. Jeff Thomas is mostly known for his studies of Indian culture through which he investigates the legacy of Canadian historical monuments. Thomas’ photographs explore the symbolic juxtapositions of past and present, historical imagery and contemporary reality, in the relationship of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in North America. Drive-by, which includes five projects, suggests a road trip of intercultural exploration with Thomas at the wheel. www.bulgergallery.com
Imaging A Shattering Earth
Presented by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography from May 2 to October 19, 2008, Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate features 56 provocative testimonies by American and Canadian photographers Edward Burtynsky, John Ganis, Peter Goin, Emmet Gowin, David T. Hanson, Jonathan Long, David Maisel, David McMillan, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, John Pfahl, and Mark Ruwedel. These concerned photographers bear witness to the profound transformation of our world. While natural calamities wreak havoc upon the environment, this exhibition and its catalogue underscore human-induced threats and damages. More information at cmcp.gallery.ca.
Greenland/Antarctica
Canadian photographer David Burdeny will be presenting his work at the Galerie Lausberg of Toronto from May 8 to June 22, 2008. The exhibition will feature a series of work captured by the artist in Greenland and Antarctica in 2007. Influenced by notable photographers such as Michael Kenna, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Fay Goodwin, Burdeny purposefully photographs in poor light and uses unusually long exposures. His images have been described as ominous, haunting, beautiful, and meditative. More information is available at www.galerie-lausberg.com.
The Last Photograph
The most recent project by Brazilian photographer Rosangela Renno, which is inspired by the corporate decision to stop the manufacturing of photographic paper, will be featured at the Prefix Institue of Contemporary Art, in Toronto, for May 1 to June 7, 2008. The Last photograph consists of a series of photographs of Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Christ de Redeemer statue on Corcovado hill alongside the cameras that were used to take them. Renno’s project brought together practitioners of diverse photographic orientations in order to comment on the mechanical processes being eliminated in the shift from traditional to digital photography. More information is available at www.prefix.ca.
New Life Berlin
New Life Berlin is a contemporary art festival curated by the art community www.wooloo.org. The Festival takes place in Berlin from June 1-15th 2008. As part of the Festival, photographers are invited to apply for participation in the Urban Space exhibition. Focusing on the aesthetics of large urban centers, Urban Space features internationally works of photography and is exhibited at selected festivals and galleries around the world with New Life Berlin being the first venue. To apply for participation or learn more, visit www.wooloo.org/urbanspace.
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Normal Work
From May 1 to 31, 2008, Toronto’s Gallery 44 will feature Normal Work, an exhibit curated by Renate Lorenz with photographs by Hannah Cullwicks and a video by Pauline Boudry. From 1855 to 1902, Hannah Cullwicks photographed self-portraits depicting a fascination with domestic labour and servitude that were directly connected to her sexuality. Renate Lorenz discovered this series of self-portraits at an archives in the UK she shared with Swiss video artist Pauline Boudry. Boudry used Victorian imagery to inspire Berlin-based drag performer Werner Hirsch to wear the costumes and imitate the poses in Cullwicks’ photographs with photographer Del La Grace Volcano’s series Daddy Boy Dykes in the background. The exhibit will be presented during the Contact festival. www.gallery44.org
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AWARDS & CONTESTS
International Year of the Potato Photo Contest
To celebrate The International Year of the Potato (IYP), a photo competition organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with Nikon Europe was launched to highlight the role of the potato as a source of food, employment, and income in developing countries. The winning photographs will be chosen by a selection panel that includes some of the world’s leading professionals working in the field of photography. Winners in the professional and amateur categories will be awarded cash prizes totalling some US$11 000 as well as Nikon cameras. Participants are invited to send their entries before September 1, 2008. More information is available at www.potato2008.org.
Northern Lights 2007 Awards Canada
The Northern Lights Awards for excellence in travel journalism is an annual initiative of the Canadian Tourism Commission’s U.S. Media Relations Program. The 2007 winners were selected from over 200 submitted entries. Three prizes were awarded in the Photography category: the First Prize went to Chris Harris (British Columbia Magazine, “Fields of Gold”), the Second Prize to Mike Grandmaison (Canadian Geographic Travel, “Jasper by Starlight”), and the Third Prize to Jay Michelfelder (Freeskier Magazine, “The Faces of Whistler”). The competition was open to magazines, newspapers, independent writers and photographers, and Internet reporters in North America who have generated tourism-oriented coverage on Canadian destinations in 2007 in either English or French.
Shell Wildlife Photographer Of The Year
The Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition is an international photo contest open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. This is the 43rd year of competition. Participants can send their entries to the contest on-line or by mail until May 31, 2008. New this year is a special photographer’s award for lifetime commitment to wildlife photography. An exhibition of the winning entries from the 2007 competition can be seen at the Natural History Museum, in London, England, until April 27, 2008. The winning images can also be seen at the museum’s on-line gallery. More information at www.nhm.ac.uk.
Hasselblad Masters 2008 Award
Hasselblad has announced the winners of its Hasselblad Masters Award for 2008 presented across 10 separate categories of photography. Among those winners, Canadian photographers Louie Palu (Editorial) and Andrej Kopac (Fashion/Beauty) were chosen as Hasselblad Masters 2008 winners. This prestigious award is open to established professional photog - raphers around the world and this year received over 1400 international applications. The winning images will be included in the production of a photographic book, to be launched at Photokina in September 2008. More information at www.hasselblad.com.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Look3 Festival
The second annual Look3 Festival of the Photograph will take place in Charlottesville, Virginia, from June 12 to 14, 2008. The Festival brings together photographers and enthusiasts from around the world to celebrate the careers of legendary artists, emerging talent, and the best work from the past year, from photojournalism to fine-art. Highlights of the three-day Festival include: gallery exhibitions and interviews with renowned photographers Mary Ellen Mark, Joel-Peter Witkin, and James Nachtwey; Shots, a multi-media showcase of new work by a selection of photographers from around the world, transforming an abandoned warehouse for the evening with projected images and audience; and Works, the Festival’s grand-finale, a presentation of work by twenty photographers. More information is available at www.look3.org.
Contact Toronto Photography Festival
The 11th annual Contact Toronto Photography Festival will be held from May 1 to 31, 2008. Contact, one of North America’s largest photography events, is an annual month-long festival that reflects the diversity of participants from local, national, and international communities. Under the theme “Between Memory and History,” the 2008 edition of Contact will celebrate how photography works with memory and enables us to reconstruct history. For the complete program, visit www.contactphoto.com.
NPAC Pictures Of The Year
The News Photographers Association of Canada will host its annual Awards Banquet and announce the winners of the Pictures of the Year competition during the 2008 NPAC National Conference in Vancouver from April 18 to 20, 2008. Winners receive cash prizes as follows: Photojournalist of the Year: $2000; Photograph of the Year: $2000; Student Photographer of the Year: $500; First Place: $500; Second Place: $200; Third Place: $100. For more information, visit www.npac.ca.
World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2008, is World Press Freedom Day, an occasion to inform citizens of press freedom violations. It serves as a reminder that, in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended, and closed down, while journalists, photojourna - lists, editors, and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained, and even murdered. It is also a day of remembrance for those journalists who have lost their lives while exercising their profession. For more information, visit www.worldpressfreedomday.org.
Photo-London 2008
Featuring the work of 400 contemporary photographers within a program of live events, related photo-auctions and exhibits around town, photo-london 2008 is the most important photography event in the UK. It takes place from May 15-18 at Old Billingsgate, a 19th century building in London’s East End, situated facing the Thames in the heart of the city. This second edition, organized by the successful Paris Photo international fair, is focused exclusively on contemporary photography since 1970. Involving a mix of 70 exhibitors, galleries, publishers, and photography magazines from the UK and around the world, photo-london 2008 provides a platform for photo-based fineart, from documentary to conceptual art photography, as well as images combined with media such as audio, video, and installation. More details at www.photo-london.com.
INDUSTRY
New Data Recovery Suite of Services
Kroll Ontrack, a Canadian company that provides data recovery and legal technologies products and services, announced the addition of a new photo-recovery service to its Ontrack Data Recovery suite of services. This offering directly addresses a recent surge in individual recovery requests paired with research that revealed digital photos are second only to Microsoft Office files as the most requested files for recovery. Kroll Ontrack’s photo-recovery service includes: a $495 flat-rate, recovery of photo files on a single media or computer hard drive, free inbound packaging and shipping, and recovered photos provided on DVD media. For more information, visit www.ontrackdatarecovery.ca.
Nikon Releases D3 Firmware Update
Nikon has released a new firmware update for the D3 that is meant to correct a photo corruption problem brought on by last month’s firmware update. The A portion of the firmware remains the same as before, at v1.10, while the B portion is now v1.11. Canadian consumers can download the update from Nikon Canada’s Imaging Support Center at http://help.nikon.ca.
Kodak Receives Oscar For New Colour Film
Eastman Kodak Co. has picked up its ninth Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for coming up with the photographic emulsion technologies used in its line of Vision2 colour negative film. Kodak CEO Antonio Perez accepted the award during the Scientific and Technical Academy Awards, held on February 9, 2008, in Los Angeles. An excerpt of that ceremony was broadcasted during the annual Academy Awards show on February 24. All of Kodak’s Academy Awards have been for scientific and technical work. The Vision2 line of film was introduced in 2002. More information at www.kodak.ca.
Posthumous Publicity Rights For Marilyn Monroe
Loeb & Loeb LLP attorneys recently secured an order in the Los Angeles Federal District Court granting reconsideration of the previous summary judgment decision that stripped Marilyn Monroe of her posthumous publicity rights. Had the original ruling remained in place, Ms. Monroe’s estate would have been unable to prevent others from commercially exploiting the actress’s name or image on a wide array of tawdry and tasteless products. Reconsideration was granted in light of recently enacted California legislation (SB 771), which clarified the original intent of the 1985 California law that created an enforceable post-mortem right of publicity for deceased actors, artists and other celebrities. U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow issued her ruling less than one week after SB 771 became effective on January 1, 2008. Similar post-mortem publicity rights legislation is expected to be introduced in New York State in the near future.
New Face Recognition Technology
FaceTime, a new type of technology to assist in capturing self-portraits when using digital camera or camera phones, was launched at the 2008 Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show in Las Vegas in January. The technology is offered as an add-on module to the FotoNation FaceTracker technology and is available for immediate licensing. FotoNation FaceTime is a new type of shutter trigger technology that is engaged when the photographer’s face is detected in a scene. After the photog- rapher puts the camera in FaceTime mode and presses the shutter button, the camera waits before firing the shutter until it recognizes the addition of another face in the frame. Once detected, a countdown timer is initiated, giving photographers time to relax and compose themselves in the scene. For more information, visit www.fotonation.com.
Environmentally-Friendly Lumiquest Products
LumiQuest, manufacturer of photographic accessories, will be introducing environmentallyfriendly items to its product line in 2008: new black material made from recycled materials, products made from recycled chipboard, print materials with soy inks. Lumiquest products are distributed in Canada by Amplis Foto Inc. For additional information, visit www.amplis.com.
SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
Visual Design Workshop
William P. McElligott will be offering his Visual Design Workshop twice this Spring, during the months of May and June. Various locations throughout the City of Ottawa, featuring some of the City’s Architectural gems, will be photographed. This weekend Visual Design Workshop is appropriate by both beginner and advanced photographers. The workshop begins with a two-hour classroom evening session with instructional guidelines, followed by two day-long field trips with the instructor. Emphasis will be on visual design and architecture; exploring the elements of light, colour, and composition. More information is available at www.wpmcelligott.com.
Innerscapes Photo Workshops
Lee Kraemer and Richard Martin will be hosting a week-end workshop on May 16, 17 and 18, 2008. This workshop targets anyone who wants to use photography as a medium of self-expression. A monthly meeting workshop with Lee Kraemer about writing and photography will be presented on April 12, 2008. Richard Martin will also be presenting a 2-day computer workshop, April 26 and 27, 2008, on how to manipulate your images using Adobe Photoshop. More information at www.innerscapes.ca.
The School of the Photographic Arts
The School of the Photographic Arts invites photographers to register for their spring/summer courses. Registration is currently open for the 25 courses, workshops, and master classes offered from May to August 1, 2008. This summer session offers new features such as Aerial and Underwater Photography, A+ Photo Contest and Exhibition for Part-Time Students, a Part-Time Certificate, and Master Class in Visual Literacy led by Michael Schreier. For more information, visit www.spao.ca.
The Magnum Workshop Toronto at Contact
Featured during the Contact festival of Toronto from May 5 to 9, 2008, the Magnum Workshop Toronto is a five-day intensive and practice-oriented workshop presented by six photographers from the Magnum Photos agency. Each workshop will be led by a different photographer, with his distinctive style and approach to photography: Christopher Anderson, Chien-Chi Chang, Bruce Gilden, David Hurn, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Larry Towell. Produced in conjunction with Contact, The Magnum Workshop Toronto offers subject-specific seminars and lectures and ample informal time allowing for cross-pollination and networking between students and instructors. More information at agency.magnumphotos.com/about/torontoworkshop.aspx.
Foto Image Works
The third edition of Foto Image Works weekend seminars will take place April 19-20, 2008 at the Asian Centre of the UBC Campus, in Vancouver. This year’s topics include: composition, family portraiture, wedding photography, lighting, and street photography. Guest speakers are: Wayne Kaulbach (Dynamic Family Portraiture & Street Photography), Greg Schurman (Lighting 101 & Strength in Composition), Christopher M. Johnson (Wedding Photography: A Survivor’s Guide), and Kim Mallory (Babies and Brats). Like previous seminars, this year’s event will include a trade show featuring products and services from industry vendors. For more information and to register on-line, visit www.fotoimageworks.com.
Photography Seminars with Wayne Lynch & Darwin Wiggett
Wildlife & landscape photographers Wayne Lynch and Darwin Wiggett will present two seminars April 12-13, 2008 at the University of Calgary, Alta. The two speakers provide tips and techniques on digital nature photography and on how to improve the marketing of your images. Participants can choose between a one or a two-day program. To register, contact Darwin Wiggett at wiggett@telusplanet.net. More information is available at www.darwinwiggett.com/nutsandbolts.html.
Annual Latow Photographers' Guild Seminar
Every year since 1980, the Latow Photographers’ Guild puts on an all-day photography seminar featuring a professional photographer invited to speak and teach about their techniques and insights into photography. The 28th Annual Latow Photographers’ Guild Seminar will take place on April 26, 2008, at the Burlington Art Centre in Burlington, Ont. from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For this edition of the event, the invited guest speaker is Michael Reichmann, a photographer, teacher, and publisher of the Luminous Landscape Web site. For more information and to reserve, visit www.latow.com.
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