WANTED: Boreal Intern

Description: We are looking for a motivated individual to help Boreal with some of its background duties. This position will be a part time; the schedule will be dictated by requirements per week. The time requirements will be up to eight hours per week.

Qualifications: The successful applicant will have a good grasp on how to work the internet, as well as dealing with technical photo requirements. Exact details of the position will be discussed with potential applicants.

The ideal candidate will be someone who is interested in working one on one with all members of Boreal and is motivated by documentary photography.

This is a paid position, compensation will be discussed.

Please send all inquiries and applications to info@borealcollective.com. Please include a cover letter and CV/resume with all applications.

Application deadline is March 5, 2012.

Exodus on Africa As a Country Blog

A reflection of Aaron Vincent Elkaims work on the Jewish Community of Morocco was highlighted today on the Blog Africa As a Country. - Check it out.

http://africasacountry.com/2012/02/20/moroccan-jews/

This work will also be shown as a Feature Exhibition during the 2012 Contact Photography Festival at the Pikto Gallery in Toronto during the month of May.

Taggart-Exhibition- Jan. 19- Toronto

Jonathan has an upcoming exhibition at Toronto’s CONTACT Gallery as part of 2011′s Scotiabank CONTACT Photo Festival Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award:

The Friction of Distance: The Lillooet River Valley

CONTACT Gallery
80 Spadina Avenue, Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario M5V 2J4

January 19 – February 16, 2012
Opening reception Thursday January 19, 6 – 9pm
Gallery hours Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 5pm

More info: http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/contactgallery

Taggart

Gundlock-Lecture-Jan. 21

Brett will be doing a lecture on Jan. 21, 2012 at the Tarragon Theatrer in Toronto along side Erin Brubacher. I will be talking about my Home series and fingers crossed- I will be showing new work.

More info in the press release bellow:

On notions of home: Brett Gundlock and Erin Brubacher

A pre-show talk at Tarragon Theatre in conversation with The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Directed by Ross Manson

Saturday January 21st, 1pm FREE lecture

Prior to this 2:30pm Matinee performance of The Golden Dragon, photojournalist Brett Gundlock joins Tarragon’s Director of Education and Outreach, Erin Brubacher, for artist talks on two projects that, like the play The Golden Dragon, draw together stories that exist side-by-side, in a contemporary city, at a moment in time…

Space for this popular lecture series is limited, so please reserve to avoid disappointment:

Email outreach@tarragontheatre.com with ‘home’ in the subject line.

Brett Gundlock is a professional photojournalist, artist and former staff photographer for The National Post. Brett’s recent exhibitions include Prisoners, at Communication Art Gallery: a portrait project chronicling individuals that were part of Canada’s largest mass arrest at the G-20 summit in the summer of 2010 in Toronto. He has also recently participated in group shows at Harbourfront Centre; in the Contact Photography Festival (featured exhibition); at the Art Gallery of York University; in the Format International Photography Festival in Derby, England and the 2009 and 2010 Ian Parry collaborative show at the Getty Images Gallery in London, England. The Movement, a series on Neo-Nazi Skinheads, was recently published as part of the 2011 Vice Photo Annual in Canada. Brett is a founding member of The Boreal Collective, a dedicated group of Canadian-based photojournalists, committed to documenting issues of environmental, social, cultural and political importance in Canada and abroad.

Erin Brubacher is an artist, educator and creative facilitator. Recent works include: Is that all there is?, a durational performance for the 2011 SummerWorks Festival; Map Making, a solo photographic exhibition at Communication Art Gallery; Homecoming, a performance project for the Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre; and Borrel, a participatory performance at Rozentheater, Amsterdam. Over the past twelve years she has lived in ten cities in four countries. Through this nomadic living she has developed an invitational arts practice, creating situations that interrupt the everyday. Erin holds a BA in Fine Arts Photography from Mount Allison University and an MA in International Performance Research jointly from the University of Warwick and University of Amsterdam; her practice-based dissertation was recently nominated for a National Thesis Prize in the Netherlands.

AFTER THE END at O’Born

Boreal Collective is excited to announce that Ian Willms will be part of O’Born Contemporary’s upcoming group exhibition, AFTER THE END. The opening reception is this coming Friday, January 13th, from 6-9pm, at 131 Ossington Ave., in Toronto. Come out and see what promises to be a great show.

From the official press release:

EXHIBITION SUMMARY:
In keeping with our mandate to discover and promote Canadian emerging artists, O’Born Contemporary is pleased to announce its first annual emergent artist exhibition, After The End, an Apocalypse themed exhibition. A prize will be awarded to one artist for best-in-show, and announced on opening night.

Emerging local artists, working in painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, digital collage and mixed media confront the environmental, biological and psychological implications of a full doomsday.

Artists include:
Sylvia Adamcik
Bryan Belanger
Nathan Cyprys
Scott Everingham
Frank Gross
Hanna Hur
Adriana Kupych
Ryan Louis
Anna Mifsud- Sweeney
Sophia Solaris
Monika Traikov
Ian Willms

For media information:
Natalie MacNamara
T: 416.413.9555
E. natalie@oborncontemporary.com