FLASH FORWARD 2010
The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce year six of its Emerging Photographers exchange with BIG NEWS. The annual competition is now the bi-annual Flash Forward Festival, starting in October 2010. The annual Flash Forward competition will continue to take place each year, complemented by the larger bi-annual Flash Forward Festival every other year.
This is an open call for submissions. All photographers in Canada, the UK and the US, 34 years of age and under, may submit. Competition Prizing Has Increased, and the Bright Spark Award winner will receive $5,000. As in the past, all competition Winners and Honourable Mentions will be published. 2010 FF selected winners will be published as part of the festival catalogue. This year's group exhibition will take place as part of the Flash Forward Festival's nightly events.
JURORS FOR 2010:
CANADA: Liz Ikiriko - Photo Editor, Toronto Life Magazine; Daniel Espeset, photo-eye Magazine; Myrabelle Charlebois - Photo Editor, enRoute Magazine; Erin Elder - Manager, Business Development, Digital Media, The Globe and Mail
UK: Lorna Mary - Company Manager, Rhubarb-Rhubarb Festival; Chris Littlewood - Photography Coordinator, Flowers East Gallery; Simon Bainbridge, British Journal of Photography, London; Aaron Schuman - Director/Editor, Seesaw Magazine
US: Andy Adams - Editor/Publisher, Flak Photo; Amanda Maddox - Assistant Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Susan Bright - Independent art writer and curator based in NY
DEADLINE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2009
FOR MORE INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS VISIT THE FOLLOWING:
www.magentafoundation.org/submissions/ff2010
