David Schonauer
flashforwardfestival.com Wednesday May 23, 2012
Mark your calendars for the second annual Flash Forward Festival Boston, running from June 7 to 12. The festival is an extension of the Magenta Foundation’s successful Flash Forward Annual
Competition for emerging photographers from Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The event kicks off grandly with the Griffin Museum Focus
Awards on June 6. There are exhibitions, panel discussions (American Photography 27 winner Tony Fouhse will be a featured speaker) and a mini book fair. Read the full Story >>
Magenta Foundation Monday January 11, 2016
The Magenta Foundation has announced the launch of the $10,000 Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Project Grant, which will support artists who need funds to continue long-term projects or to help
them finish what they have been working on. The grant essentially extends the foundation’s Flash Forward program, which invests in artists though recognition, publication, exhibitions, social
media and other outlets, including the annual Flash Forward festival in Boston. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 15. Read the full Story >>
The Magenta Foundation Tuesday August 12, 2014
A decade ago, the Magenta Foundation, a Canadian non-profit arts organization, launched the multi-city Flash Forward Festival to spotlight emerging photographic talent in Canada, the US, and the UK.
This September, the group is publishing a boxed-set book featuring winners from the fest’s first
10 years, including photographers who have gone on to wider success, such as Matt Eich, Adam Makarenko, Michal Chelbin, Peter Di Campo, Jessica Dimmock, Ilona Szwarc and Eamon Mac Mahon. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Friday May 18, 2018
The Washington Post spotlights
winners of the Magenta Foundation’s 2018 Flash Forward Emerging Artists Competition — including Brazilian photographer Luisa
Dörr, winner of the Racial Issues category with her images of a young woman taking part in the Young Miss Brazil Black Beauty. Amsterdam-based photographer Jan Hoek wins the LGBTQ category, which
looks at the fashions of transgender sex workers in Cape Town, South Africa. This was the first year that areas of special interest were introduced. Read the full Story >>
PDN Wednesday March 27, 2019
Four jurors for this
year’s Magenta Foundation Flash Forward emerging-photographer competition have withdrawn in protest of the
competition’s major sponsor, TD Bank Group, notes PDN. The bank is one of several financial institutions that have provided financing for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, the $3.8
billion oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. Three photography organizations, Authority Collective, Natives Photograph and Women Photograph, also wrote an open letter to the organization asking
it to reconsider its funding from TD Bank. Read the full Story >>
Photoville Thursday March 21, 2013
We’re already looking forward to Photoville 2013 (which will take place in Brooklyn Bridge Park from September 19 though 29.) This year the producers of the event join forces with Flash
Forward Festival to curate and produce THE FENCE 2013: The summer-long outdoor photo exhibition drew over one million visitors in Brooklyn last year, and this year the exhibit also travels to Boston!
Photographers of all levels are invited to submit images that capture the essence of “community” in several categories. The deadline in April 15. Read the full Story >>
feature shoot Wednesday May 14, 2014
City life is a paradox in which a person can feel alone while surrounded by millions of others, notes Feature Shoot, which spotlights Rio de Janeiro-based photographer Calé’s series
“Seekers.” (The work is on view at the Flash Forward festival in Boston through May 29. Go here for
more information.) Calé’s images at first appear to be technically flawed, but in fact he uses blur and overexposure to isolate individuals in urban settings. The result is a
haunting study of disconnection and anonymity. Read the full Story >>
theguardian Friday June 7, 2013
The art of paparazzi-style photography is about to take a great leap forward as more and more people start wearing Google Glass. But a new device patented by a pair of Californians aims to thwart
invasive celebrity snappers, whether they’re Glassholes or traditional photogs. The handheld device reportedly will rotate and emit “multiple deterrents” in the form of a focused
beam of light, a strobe light and a flash,” explains PetaPixel, which features diagrams that show how it might work. The inventors think the thing might also be of
use to the CIA, notes the Guardian. Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Monday November 5, 2007
I'm holed up in my living room with my laptop, writing this issue of DART, and trying not to be distracted by the beautiful autumn light that inevitably arrives with the return of Standard Time.
That makes it countdown time to the launch of American Illustration 26 and
American Photography 23. And Mark Heflin is putting the finishing touches on the displays that … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Friday January 15, 2016
This week the big news in photography came from Las Vegas. New photography and video gear poured out of CES, and we took note of some of the interesting products, including Nikon's new flagship DSLR,
the D5. With the new year upon us, we also featured a round-up of imminent deadlines for various photojournalism contests. In addition, we reported that the Magenta Foundation has … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Thursday April 20, 2017
Photography today is not the same as photography a decade ago. And photography tomorrow will look different from how it does now: Technology begets technology, moving the state of the art forward at
an ever-increasing rate. Today we round up a number of stories looking at where photography is headed, from an innovative design that turns an iPhone into a MacBook to an algorithm … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Thursday August 31, 2017
For all the would-be burners out there who were unable to snag a
$475-ticket to this year’s festival—yes, the 40-second window didn’t work for most—this DART page is devoted to the phenomenon known as Burning Man. Since 1986, revelers from
far and wide have trekked to the temporarily constructed Black Rock City, located in Black Rock Desert, for a week of art, music, dancing, … Read the full Story >>
By Thursday January 24, 2008
It has been over a year since the U.S. State Department lifted its travel warning against visiting Oaxaca, Mexico. This had been a death sentence to the economy, which is largely dependent on
tourism. Hotels were empty, restaurants empty, tour buses empty, pockets empty. Flash forward to the end of last December. The streets are now full of vendors selling an explosion of colorful … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday February 25, 2015
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the
cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.—Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden Back in the 1970s, when Carl Sagan was
musing on the history of mankind, the counties north of the Bay Area began to be populated by a new breed of first-generation farmers. They moved … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday April 12, 2013
The mid-February fire that damaged Pratt Institute’s landmark Main Building destroyed work by 35 of the 44 senior drawing and painting students in the BFA program. For
many of them, most of the work they produced during their four years of study went up in smoke, leaving them with nothing to show for their thesis exhibitions at Pratt, or for grant and graduate
school … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday July 31, 2009
I first saw Jeff Liao's extreme panoramas when his Habitat 7 series won The New York Times "Capture the Times"
photo contest in 2005, which was selected to appear in American Photography 22. This was also his MFA thesis project at the School of Visual Arts. Flash forward
to this Sunday, at the Bronx Museum, and you can see his latest view of the … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday September 15, 2006
MANHATTAN'S FIN-DE-SIECLE CREATIVITY-DRIVEN NEW MEDIA ZONE, dubbed Silicon Alley, had a kind of mystique that derived as much from it's virtual invisibility as from its 24/7 ethos. Only after the
dot.com crash, when moving vans began lining up after dark to cart away desks and Aero chairs, and neighborhood lamp posts sprouted office equipment sale flyers, did its geography become evident. By
2001, a … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday March 4, 2015
The question, “Why Draw?” is probably best answered by the question, “Why Not?” But on Monday night, landscape architect Diana Balmori and illustrator Jorge Colombo
took the question by the horns in an entertaining presentation at the New York Public Library's Mid-Manhattan branch "Author at the Library" series. Ms. Balmori offered a capsule history of the art
of landscape design through an artist’s perspective, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Tuesday April 16, 2013
Tuesday, April 16 The D-Crit Lecture Series presents, 6:30 pm: Kurt Anderson | Why
Spy? MFA Design Criticism Department, School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21 Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Free, registration required. Wednesday, April 17 Opening reception, 6-8
pm: Sage Sohier | About Face and Donald Weber | Interrogations. Foley Gallery,
97 Allan Street, NY, NY. Artist talk, 5-6 pm: Fanny Sanin in conversation … Read the full Story >>
By Dart Admin Tuesday March 6, 2007
Before the idea of becoming an artist was even a scribble in my mind, I was determined to become an entomologist, or "bugger", as I declared to a friend of my parents, who worked at the Museum of
Natural History. The study of insects, especially butterflies, was my first love. Almost as soon as I became enthralled, I heard about a seemingly mythical place … Read the full Story >>
