Flash forward 2006 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES FLASH FORWARD 2006 Flash forward 2006 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE UNITED STATES PREFACE P. 7 Al Ramsay, TD Canada Trust JUROR NOTE P. 9 Daniel Faria INTRODUCTION P. 1 0 Gary Michael Dault BRIGHT SPARK AWARD SIMON ROBERTS P. 1 2 CANADA UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES JARET BELLIVEAU P. 2 2 MARTIN AMIS P. 6 6 NATHAN BAKER P. 108 ALYSSA BISTONATH P. 2 4 DAVID BLACKMORE P. 6 8 ANNA BAUER P. 1 1 0 MARCO BOHR P. 2 6 JOAKIM BORéN P. 7 0 CHRIS CRISMAN P. 1 1 2 JESSE BOLES P. 2 8 PETER DENCH P. 7 2 JESSICA DIMMOCK P. 1 1 4 BECKY COMBER P. 3 0 ERNST FISCHER P. 7 4 RIAN DUNDON P. 1 1 6 CHARLA JONES P. 3 2 GERD HASLER P. 7 6 RIC FRAZIER P. 1 1 8 JENNIFER LONG P. 3 4 CAROLINE HEFFERNAN P. 7 8 MATTHEW HAYES P. 1 2 0 MYLES McCUTCHEON P. 3 6 JAN LETOCHA & RII SCHROER P. 8 0 COLBY KATZ P. 1 2 2 DAVIDA NEMEROFF P. 3 8 LIZ LOCK & MISHKA HENNER P. 8 2 KARINE LAVAL P. 124 FINN O’HARA P. 4 0 E.J. MAJOR P. 8 4 SERGE J.F. LEVY P. 1 2 6 LUCAS OLENIUK P. 4 2 JOSS McKINLEY P. 8 6 MARC McANDREWS P. 128 BIRTHE PIONTEK P. 4 4 SPENCER MURPHY P. 8 8 DIANE MEYER P. 130 ARIEL RUBIN P. 4 6 JENNY NORDQUIST P. 9 0 LEAH NASH P. 132 CARLOS & JASON SANCHEZ P. 4 8 J.D. PERKINS P. 9 2 MARLA RUTHERFORD P. 134 TALIA SHIPMAN P. 5 0 WILL SANDERS P. 9 4 KANAKO SASAKI P. 1 3 6 JOANNA SIMPSON P. 5 2 JAN VON HOLLEBEN P. 9 6 BRIAN SHUMWAY P. 138 LISA STINNER P. 5 4 JULIAN WARD P. 9 8 JOSEPH SYWENKYJ P. 140 MARTIN VERREAULT P. 5 6 NICKY WILLCOCK P. 1 0 0 BENJAMIN TIVEN P. 142 DONALD WEBER P. 5 8 NICOLA ZAMMIT P. 1 0 2 ANNA WOLF P. 1 4 4 MARK ZIBERT P. 6 0 HONOURABLE MENTIONS P. 104 STEFAN ZAKLIN P. 146 HONOURABLE MENTIONS P. 6 2 HONOURABLE MENTIONS P. 1 4 8 CONTRIBUTORS P. 152 PREFACE TD Bank Financial Group is proud to support The Magenta Foundation and its pioneering Emerging Artist Exchange Program. TD is committed to helping young people develop and achieve their potential, and doing so through the arts helps ensure the future of thriving creative communities. AL RAMSAY TD Canada Trust 7 JUROR NOTE The 60 photographers included in this exciting publication illustrate the talent and promise of today and tomorrow. It has been a tremendous pleasure (as well as a heart-wrenching experience) working on this project with my fellow jurors and The Magenta Foundation. Never has it been more obvious to me that we all need to continue to celebrate these stars of tomorrow by supporting this competition and the photographers through patronage and acquisition. We need to make sure they reach their full potential—investing in some great art along the way! DANIEL FARIA Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto 9 EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS EMERGING What do you get exactly, when Emerging Photographers emerge? And this kind of twinning tinctures other photographic genres represented here: formalist impassivity (British photographer Joakin Borén) is softened by the Two comments that come to mind that might serve not to clarify the question, meditative. Or a geometricizing wit animates the conventionalized proscriptions but rather to muddy it in a stimulating way. One is a famous remark by Marcel of ritual (see, for example, British photographer Caroline Heffernan’s ruled-off Duchamp in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz: “I would like to see photography make hounds waiting for the hunt). people despise painting,” Duchamp wrote, “until something else will make photography unbearable.” Poor Marcel, who was usually right about everything, And there is that disconcertingly unembarrassed beauty all the time: the icy has now been doomed twice over to disappointment: people still like painting, morphology of Cardigan Bay by British photographers Liz Lock and Mishka and photography has clearly failed to become unbearable, having, instead, come Henner, the ghostly tenderness dropped like a post-modern glove over the Lee to hold world culture in an ever-tightening grip of imagistic euphoria. Friedlander-ish spatial sandwiching in American photographer Matthew Hayes’s “Sunday Service,” the abject colouristic glory of British photographer The second remark is by Andy Grundberg in his book Crisis of the Real: Julian Ward’s sweet, battered Meccano vehicle. This effulgent colour, like other Writings on Photography Since 1974 (1999). In an essay written in 1989, in qualities of newness, comes to us fresh, as Adjusted Information. photography’s 150th year, he observed that “. if photography survives into the next century, it will be as something more overtly fabricated, manipulative, It is all born, of course, of predecessors: William Klein, Robert Frank, Mary Ellen artifi cial and self-conscious than the photography we have come to know. It Mark, Nan Goldin, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang will, in short, look less like the world and more like art.” Which usefully describes Tillmans and the other forebears lurk behind What Emerges. But “behind” is the the work of today’s Emerging Photographers, a number of them handsomely operative word here. The great practitioners of modernist and postmodernist represented in this volume. photography who made photography what it is are now leaving the building— which is right—and making way for what comes. Their work looks “like art” because it transcends genres. In the new documentary mode, for example, objectivity is almost invariably melded with desire. The And photography, despite Duchamp’s waiting for it to become otherwise, is still photographs of Britain’s Simon Roberts (The Magenta Foundation’s Bright Spark not unbearable. winner) from his series Motherland are, paradoxically, both bleak and raw and yet almost distressingly pleasing to the eye. Similarly, in the lambent industrial GARY MICHAEL DAULT landscapes of Canadian photographer Jesse Boles, machine structure is sensualized with a shaping light that is essentially impressionistic. Canadian Lucas Oleniuk’s “Hurricane Katrina Day One #1” offers the same doubled kind of visual / ethical dilemma: terrible beauty. 10 11 bright spark award SIMON ROBERTS United Kingdom Images from the series Motherland 14 BRIGHT SPARK AWARD 16 BRIGHT SPARK AWARD 18 BRIGHT SPARK AWARD Canada Detail from “Ice Fishing Two” by Finn O’Hara CANADA JARET BELLIVEAU JARET BELLIVEAU Two Weeks Before Diagnosis Tea Time at the Manse 22 CANADA ALYSSA BISTONATH Isabel Wilson, 1947 24 CANADA MARCO BOHR MARCO BOHR Lake Simcoe I, from the series Icefi shing, 2005 Lake Simcoe II, from the series Icefi shing, 2005 26 CANADA JESSE BOLES JESSE BOLES Tailings Pond, Alberta, 2005 Storage Tanks, Alberta, 2005 28 CANADA BECKY COMBER BECKY COMBER Rob Blank Mimi and Ariel 30 CANADA CHARLA JONES CHARLA JONES Northern Uganda 1 Northern Uganda 3 32 CANADA JENNIFER LONG JENNIFER LONG Olivia, from the series Hairwork, 2005/2006 Silk, from the series Hairwork, 2005/2006 34 CANADA MYLES McCUTCHEON Mercedes 36 CANADA DAVIDA NEMEROFF Rebekah and Sarah, from the series The Denim Sisters 38 CANADA FINN O’HARA FINN O’HARA Tatkik Dew Line 40 CANADA LUCAS OLENIUK LUCAS OLENIUK Hurricane Katrina Day 01 #1 Hurricane Katrina Day 01 #2 42 CANADA BIRTHE PIONTEK Swing, from the series Terrain Vague 44 CANADA ARIEL RUBIN ARIEL RUBIN Untitled #4, from the series Box of Fools Untitled #8, from the series Box of Fools 46 CANADA CARLOS & JASON SANCHEZ The Gatherer 48 CANADA TALIA SHIPMAN TALIA SHIPMAN Sway Raw 50 CANADA JOANNA SIMPSON Suburban Landscape #1 52 CANADA LISA STINNER Winnipeg #77 54 CANADA MARTIN VERREAULT MARTIN VERREAULT Facial Tanning Room, from the series Mutation Optometrist Room, from the series Mutation 56 CANADA DON WEBER DON WEBER From the series Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at 20 From the series Bastard Eden: Chernobyl at 20 58 CANADA MARK ZIBERT Orphans 60 CANADA HONOURABLE MENTIONS JOHN LONDONO ROBERT MacINNIS Christmas Farm JAMIE CAMPBELL & VANESSA HEINS SCOTT CONARROE SANAZ MAZINANI CARLYLE ROUTH From the series The Opening Backyard, 2005 Utopia Untitled RICHARD HINES DAVE KEMP GRAYDON SHEPPARD EVE K. TREMBLAY Sliced Apple, 2005, Halifax Traffi c Island —401 and 427, Toronto, Ontario, 2005 From the series Friedrich and Abraham Memoire 62 CANADA united kingdom Detail from “Backyard” by Jan Letocha & Rii Schroer MARTIN AMIS MARTIN AMIS Couple Hand 66 UNITED KINGDOM DAVID BLACKMORE A & E, X-ray Department, The Adelaide & Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 68 UNITED KINGDOM JOAKIM BORÉN JOAKIM BORÉN Untitled # 6, from the series Monoliths Untitled #10, from the series Monoliths 70 UNITED KINGDOM PETER DENCH PETER DENCH Ethnic London, The World in One City Ethnic London, The World in One City 72 UNITED KINGDOM ERNST FISCHER ERNST FISCHER Gun Shop Switzerland Picnic Bunker 74 UNITED KINGDOM GERD HASLER Untitled 76 UNITED KINGDOM CAROLINE HEFFERNAN The Infantry Line—Dunlavin Hunt, 2005 78 UNITED KINGDOM JAN LETOCHA & RII SCHROER JAN LETOCHA & RII SCHROER Lineup Refi ll 80 UNITED KINGDOM LIZ LOCK & MISHKA HENNER Cardigan Bay 82 UNITED KINGDOM E.J. MAJOR E.J. MAJOR 1983 / Did Not Cry 1985 / Tried Hard 1988 / Carried On 1997 / I Did It 84 UNITED KINGDOM JOSS McKINLEY JOSS McKINLEY From the series The Moonlight Rooms From the series The Moonlight Rooms 86 UNITED KINGDOM SPENCER MURPHY SPENCER MURPHY Ben Outside the Shed, 2001 Me and Daisy, 2002 88 UNITED KINGDOM JENNY NORDQUIST Surbrunnsparken, Sweden, 2004 90 UNITED KINGDOM J.D.