News

December 15, 2017

We are so happy to announce this. Stage 1 of Flash Forward Flash Back is now live! There is much more to come in the days and months ahead, but for now, please enjoy the past and present winners of the Flash Forward Competition as we showcase their stories on our new platform here: flashforwardflashback.com.... | [ Read more ]

December 14, 2017

Happy December, Magenta Friends! Hope you are about to embark on a happy and relaxing holiday season. We just wanted to remind you that if you visited the Edition Toronto Book Fair in October (or especially if you couldn’t make it), Edition Toronto has a lovely online shop to explore at editioneditions.com. Among the publications... | [ Read more ]

November 22, 2017

Call for submissions is open! As of now, the Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Competition is open for submissions. Times are changing, and so are we. As mentioned previously, we’re embarking upon an important new direction this year. The competition is now open to photographers anywhere in the world. We’re also announcing 4 additional areas of... | [ Read more ]

November 9, 2017

Hello Magenta friends! As we’ve shared before, there will be big changes for the next Flash Forward Emerging Artists’ Competition. We’re pleased to announce them here in further detail: When the Flash Forward Emerging Artists’ Competition first began 13 years ago, the intention was to support and encourage emerging photographers in Canada and stack them... | [ Read more ]

October 23, 2017

Coming up quickly is not only the Edition Toronto Book Fair, but also the opening night Collector Preview, which you are all invited to. It’s held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Thursday from 6:30-10pm. It’s free and open to the public, we ask however for an RSVP sent to the email below. It’s... | [ Read more ]

October 16, 2017

Art book lovers in the Toronto area (and beyond), save the dates later this month from October 27 to 30. We’ll see you for the second / edition Art Book Fair at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, running in conjunction with Art Toronto, Canada’s international fair for modern and contemporary art. Last year, over 8,000... | [ Read more ]

September 16, 2017

As the digital world evolves and artists everywhere rise to the challenge of creating ‘new’ art, we at Magenta Foundation have been looking at what we can do to improve and support artists. With the 13 years of success of the Flash Forward Program and taking stock of all the careers we have helped launch,... | [ Read more ]

July 24, 2017

Hello Magenta friends, we hope you’re enjoying the summer so far. Ours got off to a brilliant start with Flash Forward Incubator 2017, our 5th anniversary of this innovative arts program for students. Held at The Gardiner Museum in June, we had so much fun celebrating our student artists, our anniversary, and we also raised... | [ Read more ]

June 1, 2017

We’re so very pleased to announce the publication of Under Vancouver 1972-1982, the first comprehensive collection of Greg Girard’s early photographs of Vancouver. Made in and of the moment, a young photographer’s earliest engagements (often featuring the underside of the city), the pictures now form an unintended photographic record of a Vancouver that has all... | [ Read more ]

December 12, 2016

Above: Cape Dorset, Nunavut Happy holiday season, Magenta friends, We’ve got news we’re very excited and proud about this December. Without further ado, The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce the extension of its Incubator Program in the North. Incubator Cape Dorset builds on the successes of the established Flash Forward Incubator program, concurrently running... | [ Read more ]