Dominic Nahr

born 1983, Switzerland

Dominic Nahr was born in Appenzell, Switzerland in 1983 and grew up in Hong Kong. In 2008 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts in Toronto, Canada and moved to Nairobi, Kenya in 2009.



In 2004 Nahr started to work as a photographer for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He left the newspaper in 2006 to cover the civil unrest in East Timor for Agence France-Presse, before returning back to his studies. Since graduating, Nahr has devoted himself to documenting conflicts, humanitarian crises and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, South Africa, Haiti, Egypt, Gaza, Iraq and Japan.



Nahr joined the Joop Swart Masterclass by World Press Photo in 2010 and became a contract photographer for Time Magazine the following year. His clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Schweizer Illustrierte and Médecins Sans Frontières amongst others. In 2016, he co-founded NAMARA Represents, a commercial agency based out of Toronto and New York. Nahr is currently represented by Contact Press Images in New York and Focus Agentur in Hamburg.



Among numerous honors, Nahr has received a World Press Photo Award, Pictures of the Year Awards, Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, Swiss Press Photo Award, Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, a Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund for Humanitarian Photography, and was twice nominated for the Prix Pictet. In 2015 he was named Swiss Photographer of the Year by the Swiss Photo Academy in Zurich.



Nahr’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in solo shows, at such places as Les Rencontres d’Arles, twice at Visa pour l’image in Perpignan, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft in Düsseldorf and Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (USA), Fotostiftung Schweiz, Magnum Photos, Ryerson Image Centre, The Ransom Centre, The Wedge Collection, Getty Images and various private collections.

Nahr is a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts at the Hochschule Hannover, Germany and teaches photography workshops for professional photographers in developing countries such as Mali and Myanmar.

Artist website: dominicnahr.com

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Philip Cheung

born 1979, Canada

Philip Cheung is a Canadian artist, based in Los Angeles and Toronto, with a significant background and experience in various forms of photography. In recent years, he has decidedly moved towards a contemporary practice focused on research and exploration of issues of citizenship, capital, labour and industrialization through a layered approach of natural and urban landscapes and portraiture. His projects include Desert Dreams, A Winter in Kandahar, The Thing about Remembering, The Edge, and Arctic Front.

His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and festivals across North America and Europe, including The National Portrait Gallery (London, UK), the Lumix Festival (Hanover, DE) and the Flash Forward Festival (Toronto, CA).

Cheung was named one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch and has been awarded research and production grants by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize. In 2016 he was selected for the Canadian Forces Artist Program (CFAP) by the Directorate History and Heritage to continue a series that examines military culture in Canada’s post-Afghanistan military. Cheung has also been recognized by the Magenta Foundation, Communication Arts, Photo District News and American Photo. His work is held in the collection of Akkasah, Center for Photography at NYU Abu Dhabi, and has appeared in features and reviews in The British Journal of Photography, Canadian Art, The Walrus, Harper’s, The Washington Post, and TIME among others.

Artist website: www.philipcheungphoto.com

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Naomi Harris

born 1973, Canada

Naomi Harris is primarily a portrait photographer who seeks to document interesting cultural trends through her subjects. Her personal projects include Haddon Hall, America Swings, EUSA, and the on-going Oh Canada.

Haddon Hall (1999-2001), a project that documented the lives of the last remaining elderly residents at a hotel in South Beach, Florida, received the International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa/Das Bildforum, an honourable mention for the Yann Geffroy Award, and was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography.

In America Swings Harris documented the phenomenon of ‘swinging’ over the course of 5 years (2003-2008) all over the United States. This project resulted in her first monograph “America Swings” published by Taschen in 2008 as a limited collector’s edition, and again in 2010 as a trade edition. The book, edited by Dian Hanson, includes an interview with Harris by Richard Prince.

Her recent project EUSA (2008-2015) documents American-themed places in Europe and European-themed places in America. She is currently working on a book by the same title.

Harris’s awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Photography (2013), and a Long-Term Career Advancement Grant from the Canada Council (2012).

She currently divides her time between Toronto and Los Angeles.

Artist website: naomiharris.com

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Nancy Friedland

b. 1971, Canada

Nancy Friedland is a photographer whose work thematically investigates narrative, nature, landscape, and loss. After studying photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design, she completed her MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a Sir Edmund Walker Scholar. She has received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

In 2012 she had a solo show of her series Vigil in Toronto and participated in group shows in Calgary and New York City. Her work has been shown in public and private institutions across Canada, the US, and in Japan.

She lives and works in Toronto.

Artist Website: www.nancyfriedland.com

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Eamon Mac Mahon

b. 1976, Canada

Eamon Mac Mahon is an artist working with photography and video currently based in Toronto. Raised in northern Alberta, his fascination with the wilderness and landscape began at an early age. Mac Mahon’s photographs have been widely published, including in the Walrus, National Geographic, Capricious, Globe & Mail, the New Yorker, and through MIT Press. Institutionally, his work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Alberta, Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Power Plant. He is represented by Circuit Gallery.

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Akihiko Miyoshi

b. 1974, Japan

Born in Japan, Akihiko Miyoshi received his MFA in photography in 2005 from the Rochester Institute of Technology after leaving a PhD program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue art. Miyoshi is currently an Associate Professor of photography and digital media at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Miyoshi’s work explores the intersection between art and technology most frequently dealing with issues surrounding representation. His exhibition record includes shows in Portland, New York, Los Angeles, Rochester, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. He was named the International Award Winner of Fellowship 12 at The Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh PA, and the finalist for the Betty Bowen Award from the Seattle Art Museum in 2012 and Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2013. Miyoshi received a Hallie Ford Fellowship in 2012. He is represented by Circuit Gallery, Toronto.

Artist website: http://people.reed.edu/~miyos/

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Donald Weber

b. 1973, Canada

Donald Weber is a photographer whose work explores the infrastructures of power in conjunction with the shadow states of globalized violence: societal, cultural, and economic. He is deeply interested in history and its accompanying narratives, often asking a simple question: How is the past performed for the present?

His diverse photography projects have been exhibited as installations, exhibitions and screenings at festivals and galleries worldwide including: the United Nations; Musée de l’Armée at Les Invalides, Paris; the Portland Museum of Art; the Royal Ontario Museum; and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

His Interrogations project and accompanying book (Schilt, 2011), about post-Soviet authority in Ukraine and Russia, was published to international acclaim from World Press Photo, PDN, Aperture, and many others; it was selected to be included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s seminal The Photobook: A History, Volume III. Interrogations was preceded by Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl (2008) which won the photolucida Book Award.

Weber’s recent projects include Barricade and War Sand. Shot over the crucial month of February, 2014, Barricade inventories the accoutrements and sites of EuroMaidan, giving us a visual language of the revolution that toppled a government and fomented a geopolitical crisis from central Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti or Independence Square. The book, a collaboration with Arthur Bondar, was published in 2014 (Schilt). War Sand (Polygon, 2018), is a poetic rumination, through a survey of the beaches and landscapes of D-Day, about historic sacrifice and the meaning of war in our modern world. (The book is available through Polygon.)

Weber’s numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lange-Taylor Prize, the Duke and Duchess of York Prize, two World Press Photo Awards, and PDN’s 30. He was named an Emerging Photo Pioneer by American Photo, and was a finalist for the prestigious 2014 Scotiabank Photography Award.

Weber is represented by Circuit Gallery in Toronto, and currently serves on the faculty of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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Books

War Sand, Polygon, 2018
Photography by Donald Weber, with texts by Larry Frolick, Kevin Robbie and Donald Weber
Design: Teun van der Heijden, Heijdens Karwei, Amsterdam
Format: 7.6″×11.4″ (195×290 mm)
398 pp., fold-out map insert, 195 colour images
Language: English, French and German
​ISBN: 978-0-9959377-0-3
* SOLD OUT

Barricade: The Euromaidan Revolt, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2014
Donald Weber and Arthur Bondar, with texts by Larry Frolick and Donald Weber
Design: Victor Levie | MV LevievanderMeer, Amsterdam
Format: 22 x 24.5 cm (portrait)
72 pages with approx. 127 photos in full colour
ISBN: 9789053308417

Barricade, Special Edition (100)
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Interrogations, Schilt, 2011
with texts by Larry Frolick, and Donald Weber
Design: Teun van der Heijden
Format: 17 x 24 cm (portrait) Softbound with cardboard slipcase 176 pages with 90 photos in full colour
ISBN: 9789053307595
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Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl, Photolucida, 2008
Softbound, 64 pages, 60 photographs
ISBN: 1934334057

Alejandro Cartagena

b. 1977, Dominican Republic / Mexico

Alejandro Cartagena lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects are primarily documentary based and employ landscape and portraiture to examine social, urban, and environmental issues in Latin America. His work also engages with a larger history of photography by reinterpreting or rethinking the ways in which poignant issues have been addressed or represented in the past. This has widened his works’ aesthetic and conceptual approach and added layers of meaning to his complex interpretations of our society.

Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in public and private collections in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, and the United States, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, the Portland Museum of Art, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Cartagena has published several award winning photobooks. His titles include Santa Barbara Shame on US (Skinnerboox, 2017), A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption (The Velvet Cell, 2017), Rivers of Power (Newwer, 2016), Santa Barbara Return Jobs to US (Skinnerboox, 2016), Before the War (self-published, 2015), Carpoolers (self-published/FONCA 2014), and Suburbia Mexicana (Daylight/Photolucida 2011).

He is the recipient of several major national grants, numerous honorable mentions and acquisition prizes in Mexico and abroad including the Photolucida Critical Mass Book Award, the Lente Latino award in Chile, and the Premio IILA-Fotografia 2012 award in Rome. He has been named a FOAM Magazine “Talent” and one of PDN’s 30 “International Emerging Photographers To Watch”. He has also been a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Award and has been nominated for the Santa Fe Photography Prize, the Prix Pictet, the Photoespaña Descubrimientos Award, and the FOAM Paul Huff Award.

Cartagena’s work has been published internationally in magazines such as Newsweek, The New York Times Lens blog, Nowness, Domus, The Financial Times, View, The Guardian, le Monde, PDN, The New Yorker, The Independent, Monocle, Maclean’s, and Wallpaper.

Artist website: www.alejandrocartagena.com

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Books

A Guide to Infrastructure and Corruption, The Velvet Cell, 2017
with a text by Ximena Peredo
Hardcover in Box, 192 pages
ISBN: 9781908889539

Santa Barbara Shame on US, Skinnerboox, 2017
with an introduction by Jonathan Blaustein
Hotfoil Velvet Softcover, 112 pages
ISBN: 9788894895056

Santa Barbara Return Jobs Back to US, Skinnerboox, 2016
with an introduction by Jonathan Blaustein
Hotfoil Velvet Softcover, 112 pages
ISBN: 9788894134124

carpoolers, Self-published / Fonca – Conaculta, 2014 / 2016
with a text Jessica McDonald
Hardcover, English, 112 pages
ISBN: 9780692226605
* First Edition (2014) SOLD OUT

Rivers of Power/Ríos de Poder, NEWWER / Cartagena, 2014
with texts by Ximena Peredo, Gonzalo Ortega
Softcover in Box, 144 pages
ISBN: 9780996669719

Suburbia Mexicana, Daylight Books / Photolucida, 2012
with texts by Gerardo Montiel Klint, Karen Irvine, and Lisa Uddin
Hardcover, English, 108 pages
ISBN: 9780983231608

Robert Bean

b. 1954, Canada

Robert Bean is an artist, writer and curator living in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he is a Professor at NSCAD University.

Bean has edited books and published articles on the subject of photography, contemporary art and cultural history. He has been an active contributor to the Cineflux Research Group at NSCAD University and the Narratives in Space and Time art and mobility project. Bean is a recipient of grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canada Council for the Arts. He was the Artist in Residence at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, in 2010.

Utilizing public archives and collections, Bean considers the temporal uncertainty that photographs and digital media evoke in relation to experience, technology and language. Specific to this project is the production of artwork and publications influenced by the culture of networks, mobile computing and obsolescence.

In 2011, the CONTACT Photography Festival and the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology commissioned Bean to complete a site-specific multimedia installation titled “Illuminated Manuscripts” at the McLuhan Coach House, University of Toronto. This project was also exhibited at Canadian Cultural Centre/Centre culturel canadien in Paris. In 2012, Bean completed the solo exhibition at Circuit Gallery titled “273 (brushing information against information)” in conjunction with the centenary of John Cage. In 2013 he completed a collaborative installation titled “Obsolescence and Inscription” at Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax. In 2014, Bean curated the exhibition “Stan Douglas Photographs” in conjunction with the Scotiabank Photography Award. Installed at the Ryerson Image Centre during the CONTACT Photography Festival, the exhibition was accompanied by a monograph of photographs by Stan Douglas published by the Steidl Press. In 2014, Bean was invited to present a solo exhibition at ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Robert Bean’s work is in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Canada Council Art Bank, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, AWBZ-Visual Art Collection of Global Affairs Canada, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Donovan Collection, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Ontario.

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