The first ever Scotiabank Photography Award — SPA for short — was presented yesterday evening with a swish reception on the 63rd floor of Scotia Plaza: Montreal’s Lynne Cohen, above right, is the winner of the $50,000 cash prize in addition to a book deal with art photography publisher Steidl and a curated photography exhibition at next year’s Contact festival. Pictured above with Cohen are, from left, Scotiabank Senior VP Duncan Hannay, Scotiabank Director Jane Nokes and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, who chaired the jury panel.
Said Nokes: “For 30 years Lynne Cohen has invited us into a world of contemplation. Her profound, powerful and provocative work is astonishingly three dimensional, I like to think of it as the shock of the familiar.”
Untitled 2010 by Lynne Cohen
Also shortlisted for the prize were Toronto’s Robin Collyer and Vancouver’s Roy Arden, both of whom received $5,000 cash prizes. Lynne Cohen’s work is on display at Olga Korper Gallery as part of Contact until June 1.
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