Geneviève Caron has been taking pictures since she was in her teens, but only decided to become a photographer in her late twenties, after having worked as a graphic designer for a few years, as well as project manager in an advertising agency. She studied photography, graphic design and fashion merchandising. In her work, she chooses to represent an idealized, beautified reality which she controls both on set and in post-production. The subtle interaction between visual elements, independent of the subject matter, support strong notions of minimalism throughout her work. She spends her time between travel, personal projects and commissioned photography, both advertising and editorial, which regularly appears in major publications. This series, ‘Inbetween’, will be exhibited at One 800 Gallery in Toronto from August 8-29.
Alex Arz is a 22-year-old photographer hailing from Frederick County, Maryland, where she was raised by a mother, a brother, two sisters, cows, horses, fields and rivers. She is a recent graduate from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. These images are from her series, Human-Animal, of which she writes, ‘The animals in these pictures often occupy the home space as fixtures much like the trinkets and framed pictures that broadcast the animal lover’s identity. Various objects, including empty grocery store food packets, tchotchkes, stuffed animals, animal clothes, car decals, drawings, memorialized gravesites, and photographs identify the human owners as animal-lovers, even when the object of their affection is not captured in the frame. As many of my photographs make clear, some human identities are carved through the creation of a familiar human-pet dynamic involving both affection and dominance, captivity and care. My photographs record this symbiosis as it occurs in the American home’.
Brian Shumway is a New York City based photographer whose work blurs the line between portraiture, documentary and fine art photography. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, XXL and the New York Times, among others. Of this series he writes, ‘Black Girl is an ongoing portrait series about young black women in the New York City area who aspire to be models of all types. It grew out of a perceived need to expand my work beyond just documentary and into portraiture and ‘fashion.’ So, I began to shoot models, contacting them through a modeling website. As I did, I noticed something. We all realize, at least in some way, that the mainstream fashion world is white-washed, especially at the high-fashion end, and successful black models are very rare by comparison. What I found was that even though there are so few black professional models, literally thousands and thousands of young black women (just within 50 miles of my zip code) are striving to attain that dream, or at least their interpretation of it’.
Boru O’Brien O’Connell is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and is currently based in upstate New York. He moved from Paris, where he spent a year as an artist-in-residence and grant recipient with CitéCulture. He has also received a Traveling Scholars Fellowship from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Shiho Fukada is a freelance photographer based in Beijing, China. She is a native of Tokyo, Japan with a degree in English literature, who worked in the fashion and advertising industries in New York before becoming a photojournalist. Her work has been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Fortune, Geo, Stern, De Spiegel, Le Monde, Figaro and New York Magazine among others. She has also shot several television commercials, using her still images. Her commercial clients include Microsoft, Nike, Clinique, Johnson & Johnson, CBS News and MSNBC. She was recently awarded a grant from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and in 2009 The New York Times nominated her photographs for a Pulitzer Prize in breaking news.
Mark Peckmezian is part of this years graduating class from Ryerson. He has developed an exquisite photographic style focused on the intricacies of human character. His portfolio of snapshots developed over his student period, are remarkably complex character studies. His photographs have been published in Prefix Photo and have been selected for inclusion in Magenta’s Flash Forward exhibit touring internationally. He is presently working as a research-assistant on the historic Black Star photography collection. Mark is represented for commercial and editorial work by Stash. This summer will see the release of his first book by new German publisher Pogobooks.
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Trujillo-Paumier is the team of Joaquin Trujillo and Brian Paumier. Trujillo-Paumier began their collaboration during their studies at Art Center College of Design Pasadena in 2001. Best known for their poised and meticulous portraiture and travel imagery, their work embodies an old-world formality with modern wit to make for the perfect integration of theatricality and contemporary style. Their images appear frequently in numerous publications and periodicals including Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, New York Times Magazine, GQ, Elle, Newsweek, and Los Angeles Magazine. Trujillo-Paumier photography has shown at numerous galleries and art fairs including The Rose Gallery, The De Soto Gallery, Photo Paris, Art LA, Photo NY and Scope NY. Joaquin is from a little town on the outskirts of Zacatecas, Mexico and bears the influence of his heritage with an affinity for pageantry and ostentation. Brian grew up in Southern California as a suburbanite informed by cable television and punk rock. Trujillo-Paumier is based in Los Angeles and New York.
Robbie Augspurger was born in Peoria, IL in 1977, and currently lives in Portland, OR. He got his first camera for his twelfth birthday, held at Showbiz Pizza Place, where there were animatronic animals wearing suits and playing in a band. He didn’t immortalize that rare vision on film that night, but ever since he can remember, he was interested in taking pictures.
Vee Speers was born in Australia and has been living in Paris since 1990. Her portraits have been exhibited and published world-wide. Speer’s most recent work ‘The Birthday Party’ is a series of short stories linked by the theme of an imaginary birthday party. In a conceptual and technical departure from her previous work it is partly a self portrait, sometimes woven with threads from her own childhood. Speers also wanted to use the imaginary birthday party backdrop to address both our collective human experience of war and our need to retreat from it into fantasy.
Yu Xiao was born in 1984 in Zi Bo, Shandong, China. She received her M.A. in Photography from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2009. She has won many awards and has exhibited in China and America. In this work, ‘Never grow up’, Yu Xiao digitally creates child versions of herself as a commentary on China’s one child rule and the intense focus on childhood that results.
