Introducing the future of Canadian photography
Who are creating some of the most compelling, imaginative, intriguing works of photography across Canada? Meet the gifted young artists longlisted for the second annual New Generation Photography Award.
Designed to support the careers of artists 30 and under, the award was founded by Scotiabank in creative collaboration with the Canadian Photography Institute at the National Gallery of Canada. There will be three winners, each to receive a $10,000 cash prize, a group exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel during the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto May 1–June 9, 2019 and at the Canadian Photography Institute PhotoLab at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa in September 2019.
Let’s look at the moving works by the 23 longlisted artists.
Rebecca Bair, They Told Me This Would Hurt (1), 2018
Alice Boutten, TerreSilencieuse_02, 2014
Matthew Brooks, Chateau Lanes, 2017
Hannah Campbell, Blue Mountain. 2013
Sam Cotter, Provisional Power (from Day for Night), 2017
Hannah Doucet, Performative Selves, 2016
Seamus Gallagher, fembots have feelings, too, 2018
Andrew Godsalve, Mainlanding Black Duck Suardahl of Ord Leonowens by Cape St Margaret's Loch Dubh with Port au Strath Anna (Fossils of lapetus) (Detail), 2018
Zainab Hussain, Blue and White (Zainab) from UNSEEN/SEEN, 2014
Zackery Hobler, 18133401 (Block 1C, High Park, Toronto, ON), 2018
Anna Kasko, Walkway, 2018
Thibaut Ketterer, Extrait de la série <<Exode 138>>, 2016
Luther Konadu, Figure as Index, 2018
Paulina MacNeil, Self Portrait 1, 2017
Ethan Murphy, Thunderland, 2017
Katherine Nakaska, Photo Album, 2015
Zinnia Naqvi, Dear Nani. 2017
Wynne Neilly, "Lee in the Water at Long Point Beach", 2018
Curtiss Randolph, 72 Hours, 2017
Nicholas Aiden Ryan, Sunlight, 2018
Melissa Tremblett, (untitled) - ('birds nest', broken glass in Sheshatshiu Innu School), 2015
Graeme Wahn, Card Tower (Glacier), 2017
Matthew Wong. Untitled (Palestinian protest, Qalandiya), 2017