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April 15, 2019

Flash Forward Incubator  St. John’s, NL May 26, 1pm to 4pm Solomon Path Gallery Neal Building 50 Harbour Drive Please join us for our Flash Forward Incubator program in St. John’s, Newfoundland and help us celebrate and support our rising young art stars in this community. This pioneering program for the high-school arts will culminate... | [ Read more ]

April 15, 2019

Flash Forward Incubator Hamilton, ON May 15, 6pm to 8pm Art Gallery of Hamilton Jean and Ross Fischer Gallery Hamilton-area friends, come out to our Silent Auction and Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Hamilton as we auction off the work of our talented students from local high schools. This school year, the Flash Forward... | [ Read more ]

January 4, 2019

Hello Magenta friends and Happy New Year to you all! Hopefully all of you who are eligible have applied (or plan to apply soon) to Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Competition 2019. Called Flash Forward: Canada and The World, this emerging photographers competition supports all young photographers working in all forms of photography, and introduces four... | [ Read more ]

December 21, 2018

Above: Flash Forward 2018 winner Nina Roeder‘s Wenn du gehen musst willst du doch auch bleiben. Hi Magenta friends, Here’s hoping everyone had a brilliant year, we certainly did. We thought we would wrap up 2018 with a look back at all the things that we are grateful for. We would also say thank you... | [ Read more ]

September 24, 2018

In October, the winners of our Flash Forward Special Interest Artist Publications will be released. As you may recall, the Special Interest categories were Race Issues, Female Identifying Photographers, LGBTQ Issues an Climate and Environment. (The list of our winners is here.) These little books have a BIG message and are the first in our... | [ Read more ]

September 24, 2018

Hello Magenta friends, we hope that everyone enjoyed a good summer and September is treating you right, too. We’ve been busy over the summer and so happy to share this with you: Our fresh new website. It’s beautifully redesigned and updated to reflect all that we do at the Magenta Foundation, so please do check... | [ Read more ]

September 23, 2018

Edition Toronto is coming soon! Be sure to join us. Now in our third year, the 3/edition Art Book Fair will run from Friday, October 26 to Sunday, October 28, 2018. Last year, over 10,000 visited 2/edition, and perused a wide range of artist’s books, editions, and ephemera representative of the timely, groundbreaking trends in... | [ Read more ]

September 22, 2018

Hello Magenta friends! This spring we’ll be releasing two exciting new publications. One is Tokyo-Yokosuka, a title we’re highly anticipating from Greg Girard. “The photographs in Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983 are about the Tokyo I was living in at the time. It would be some years later before I started making a living as a magazine photographer... | [ Read more ]

August 3, 2018

Hello Magenta Friends, We hope you’ve been staying tuned to Flash Forward/Flash Back, our engaging new platform under the direction of editor Laurence Butet-Roch. Each week we post new content, from conversations by Flash Forward artists, to in-depth looks at important work. “I’ve modelled the Flash Forward Flash Back website along the lines of my... | [ Read more ]

August 2, 2018

Hello Magenta Friends! This year’s new direction for the Flash Forward award brought us new friends, more audience and many accolades to help us celebrate all the amazing talent we see in the competition each year. We are busy behind the scenes creating the publication of the TOP 100 photographers, selected by the jurors, from... | [ Read more ]