Henrieta Haniskova was born and raised in socialist Czechoslovakia. Settling in a new home across the ocean at the age of 19, she spent her first paycheck on a used Olympus SLR. What started out as a hobby Haniskova studied at the Toronto School of Art, Ryerson University and assisted a number of commercial photographers in Toronto. Currently working as a commercial photographer, she has traveled the world with her camera. Her photographic project documenting 50 Elvis Tribute Artists in Collingwood has received much acclaim. In 2008 her work was a Featured Exhibition at the CONTACT Photography Festival. The same body of work earned her 3rd place in the Lucie Awards, New York and will be published in the Canadian Geographic this summer.
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Alex Kisilevich is a photo-based artist living and working in Toronto. He completed two BFA’s from York University (Music, 2007) and OCAD (Photography, 2009) and is currently completing an MFA at York University. Kisilevich is engulfed by the tragic and ironic. He uses storytelling capabilities of constructed narrative to manifest these feelings in his work. His photographs often conjure spaces of in-between where the lines between several emotions are blurred and the viewer is caught between the desire to smile and to feel disturbed. His work was featured in Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2009. He was the national winner of BMO’s 1st Art Invitational Student Competition 2009.
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www.alexkisilevich.com
Adam Krawesky has been photographing people in cities for the past eight years. In Kawesky's photography, the monotony of everydayness is countered by the emotive qualities of space in a manner that recalls Henri Lefebvre's formulation of modern space as at once conceived, perceived, and lived. Krawesky's solitary figures carry the ambiguous burden of the city, embodying a response to the anonymity and enclosure that characterize urban space. His photographs express the opposition of presence and absence, of affect and tedium that one experiences in the city. Krawesky's work is represented by Patrick Mikhail Gallery in Ottawa. He is a winner of Flash Forward's 2009 emerging photographer award.
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www.inconduit.com
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