Congratulations!
We’re pleased to announce this year’s winners

2015 Winners
Flash Forward: Emerging photographers

Bright Spark

  • Charlie Shoemaker

Canada

Winners

  • Anica James
  • Bryan Huynh
  • Christopher Katsarov Luna
  • Daphne Yuen
  • Dylan McArthur
  • Emilie Regnier
  • Ian Willms
  • Jeff Bierk
  • Joannie Lafrenière
  • Jordan Campbell
  • Kerry Shaw
  • Kin Chan
  • Laurence Butet-Roch
  • Liat Aharoni
  • Mara Gajic
  • Margaret Thompson
  • Marta Iwanek
  • Matin Zad
  • Michelle Siu
  • Nathan Cyprys
  • Nick Kozak
  • Nicolas Gouin
  • Olivier Gariépy
  • Paul Swanson
  • Petar Boskovic
  • Remi Theriault
  • Renaud Philippe
  • Ryan Walker
  • Sara A.Tremblay
  • Sean Sprague
  • Serena Wercholewski
  • Shirin Fathi
  • Steph Martyniuk
  • Steve Veilleux
  • Wynne Neilly

Honourable

  • Andrew Savery-Whiteway
  • Brandon Brookbank
  • Chloë Ellingson
  • Daniel Paterson
  • David McLeish
  • Fiorenzo Break
  • Gabriel Fournier
  • Jennifer Osborne
  • John Mutter
  • Kate Schneider

United Kingdom

Winners

  • Aletheia Casey
  • Alexandra Lethbridge
  • Annie Collinge
  • C. Y. Frankel
  • Carl Bigmore
  • Carlotta Cardana
  • Clarisse d’Arcimoles
  • Daniel Ali
  • Daniella Zalcman
  • Emilia Moisio
  • Eugenio Grosso
  • Fern Leigh Albert
  • Gillian Hyland
  • Jack Davison
  • Jacob Burge
  • James Wakefield
  • Lizzie Vickery
  • Luke Brown
  • Marco Kesseler
  • Mat Hay
  • Miriam Stanke
  • Oliver Eglin
  • Owen Harvey
  • Richard Seymour
  • Robert Ormerod
  • Rob Stothard
  • Ross Williams
  • Ryuji Araki
  • Samuel Ivin
  • Sam Wood
  • Sunsun Liu
  • Thomas Dryden Kelsey
  • Tina Hillier
  • Toby Coulson
  • Tommy Trenchard
  • Travis Hodges

Honourable

  • Andrew McGibbon
  • Bertil Nilsson
  • Feiyi Wen
  • Jack Taylor
  • Jocelyn Allen
  • Jonathan Cherry
  • Kayung Lai
  • Nikolai Ishchuk
  • Peter Watkins
  • Phillip Reed

United States

Winners

  • Aaron Blum
  • Alison Malone
  • Allison Barnes
  • Anastasia Samoylova
  • Barrett Emke
  • Brendan Hoffman
  • Cassandra Klos
  • Christopher Gregory
  • Claire A. Warden
  • Clare Benson
  • Eliot Dudik
  • Erin Trieb
  • Felipe Jacome
  • Frances Denny
  • Giacomo Fortunato
  • Glenna Gordon
  • Goseong Choi
  • Isadora Kosofsky
  • Jay Gould
  • Jess T. Dugan
  • Justin Cook
  • Justin James Reed
  • Kevin van Aelst
  • Lindsay D’Addato
  • Lori Hepner
  • Mark Dorf
  • Michael Donnor
  • Monique Jaques
  • Nir Arieli
  • Peter Croteau
  • RaMell Ross
  • Ricardo Nagaoka
  • Ricky Rhodes
  • Sara Lewkowicz
  • Sofia Valiente

Honourable

  • Andria Hautamaki
  • Dan Wetmore
  • Greg Kahn
  • Ilana Panich-Linsman
  • Justin Maxon
  • Nick Schietromo
  • Noah Rabinowitz
  • Noritaka Minami
  • Tim Hussin
  • Yoav Friedlander

The Magenta Foundation gratefully acknowledges the support of TD Bank Group for their ongoing commitment to Flash Forward and to emerging artists.

TD Bank Group

Jurors

Canada

  • Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie, Managing Editor / Books & Exhibitions, The Magenta Foundation
  • Erin Elder, Manager, Business Development & Partnerships, The Globe and Mail
  • Eva Michon, Co-founder & Editor of Bad Day magazine

United Kingdom

  • Gemma Barnett, Print Sales Manager, The Photographers’ Gallery
  • Rebecca McClelland, Group Photography Editor & Creative Director, Ian Parry Scholarship
  • Cheryl Newman, Photography Director, Telegraph Magazine

United States

  • David Alexander Arnold, Photo Editor, Travel + Leisure
  • Elizabeth Avedon, Independent Curator and Writer, L’Oeil de la Photographie
  • Sam Barzilay, Creative Director, United Photo Industries; Co-Founder, Photoville
  • Alyssa Coppelman, Independent Photo Editor
  • Kate Gilbert, Independent Public Art Curator
  • Julie Grahame, Editor and Publisher, aCurator
  • Meg Handler, Editor-at-Large, BagNews
  • Emily Keegin, Photography and Art Director
  • Divya Rao Heffley, Program Manager, Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Paula Tognarelli, Executive Director and Curator, Griffin Museum of Photography

Invited International Jurors

  • Mauro Bedoni, Photo Editor, COLORS magazine
  • Raphaëlle Stopin, Curator, Writer; Photography Art Director, International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France

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About Flash Forward

Established in 2004, Flash Forward, in all its award-winning formats, has been a life-changing career boost for young photographers since its inception 14 years ago. This program for supporting and encouraging emerging artists in Canada and worldwide began with an idea to invest in artists barely out of university. Not only did we turn a small idea into a prominent worldwide competition, we paved the way for a high school program to influence arts curriculums, change and encourage leadership in teachers and keep essential funds in high schools.