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MAGNUM WORKSHOP

Magnum Photos is one of the most prestigious photographic agencies in the world. Representing only 60 members worldwide, it is a cooperative organization fully owned and directed by the photographers

The Magnum Workshop is an intensive five-day master class with six Magnum photographers. Participants selected by the Magnum agency, from a world-wide call to participate, will produce individual projects under the same constraints as a professional assignment and receive daily reviews and editing sessions. Focusing on story formation, visual literacy, and personal vision, the master class aims to enhance photographers’ working style and overall vision. A team of HP printing staff will work with participants to produce large format exhibition prints using HP’s state of the art Z-3100 printer. A multimedia project about the Toronto Workshop, featuring participants images, will be produced by Magnum in Motion for the Magnum Photos website.

Three Scotiabank Scholarships will be awarded to Canadian photography students to attend the Magnum Workshop at CONTACT. Magnum photographers will select one participant of outstanding achievement from the Workshop to receive a Scotiabank Prize of $5,000.

MAGNUM WORKSHOP EXHIBITION
MAY 10 – June 10
CONTACT Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue Suite 310
Opening May 10
6 - 8PM

MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHERS

Christopher Anderson
Born in British Columbia, Christopher Anderson spent much of his early years in Texas, where his father was a preacher. In 1999, Anderson made a reportage on Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the United States that would significantly change his work to focus on what he often thought of as experiential journalism. Anderson joined the VII Agency in 2002, and became a Magnum nominee in 2005. He is based in New York.

Chien-Chi Chang
Born in Taiwan Chien-Chi Chang's work draws on his own immigrant experience. Themes of alienation and connection surface particularly in The Chain, a collection of portraits made in a Taiwanese mental institution. An exhibition of these nearly life-sized photographs has toured internationally and exhibited at venues including the Venice Biennale and the Biennal de São Paulo. Chang joined Magnum Photos in 1995, he lives and works in Taipei and New York City.

Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden's childhood in Brooklyn endowed him with a keen eye for observing urban behaviors and individual peculiarities has been present from the beginning of his career. Gilden, who has traveled and exhibited widely around the world, has received numerous awards, including the European Award for Photography, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Japan Foundation fellowship. He joined Magnum June 1998 and lives in New York City.

David Hurn
Born in the UK but of Welsh descent, David Hurn is a self-taught photographer who gained his reputation with his reportage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In 1973 he set up the famous School of Documentary Photography in Newport, Wales, and has been in demand throughout the world to teach workshops. David Hurn has a longstanding international reputation as one of Britain's leading reportage photographers. Hurn became a full Magnum in 1967. He continues to live and work in Wales.

Alessandra Sanguinetti
Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, and raised in Argentina from 1970 until 2003. Her photographs are included in public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has photographed for The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York Magazine. Sanguinetti became a Magnum nominee in 2007. She is currently based in New York.

Larry Towell
The son of a car repairman, Towell grew up in a large family in rural Ontario. In 1996 Towell completed a project based on ten years of reportage in El Salvador, followed the next year by a major book on the Palestinians. His fascination with landlessness also led him to the Mennonite migrant workers of Mexico, an eleven-year project completed in 2000. He recently completed The World from My Front Porch, a project on his own family in rural Ontario, where he sharecrops a 75-acre farm. Towell became a full Magnum member in 1993.