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Judges
Jessica Auer | Adad Hannah | Aydin Matlabi | Linda Rutenberg
Jessica Auer
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts
Jessica Auer is a documentary-style landscape photographer from Montreal.
Inspired by her intimate experiences in the outdoors, her work is largely concerned with the exploration of cultural sites. Having received her MFA in 2007, she is the recipient of numerous grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and awards such as the W.B. Bruce European Fine Art Travel Fellowship and the Roloff Beny Prize. Her work is held in various private and public collections such as the Musée des Beaux Arts du Québec and the Canada Council Art Bank.
Jessica is a co-founder and co-director of Galerie Les Territoires in Montréal and teaches photography at Concordia University.
Adad Hannah
Alumni Photographer
Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980’s. He has lived and worked in Montreal since 2001.
He has exhibited at a large number of museums, galleries and biennials worldwide, and has recently finished shooting projects in London, Calais, Russia, and Seoul. A body of videos and photographs was produced in collaboration with the Prado Museum in Madrid, a site-specific work was commissioned for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and a work was produced with five sets of identical twins for the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Hannah has been longlisted three times for the Sobey Art Award.
Aydin Matlabi
Alumni Photographer
Aydin Matlabi was born in Tehran, Iran, but immigrated to Canada as a refugee at a young age.
For the past five years, he has travelled to hot spots in the Middle East and during the past three years, he made frequent trips to Iran to finish his thesis project. On his last trip to Iran in summer 2009, he was one of the participants in the country's Green Movement. His defiance led to his arrest and expulsion.
In 2010, when Matlabi was an MFA student in Concordia’s Studio Arts program, he was selected by a jury of six Concordia photography professors to be awarded the inaugural Dick and Gretchen Evans Prize for Photography.
Linda Rutenberg
Alumni Photographer
Linda Rutenberg was born in Montreal, Canada.
She has a BFA in film and music and a MFA in Photography from Concordia University and has taught photography and worked as a freelance photographer for thirty years. She has led workshops in different parts of the world and has organized photographic trips to Mexico and the United States. In 1995 she opened Camera Lucida Image Centre in Montreal which housed a darkroom rental facility, a lab, a school and a gallery. In 1997 she left Clic and opened Galerie Mistral, a fine art photography gallery in Montreal, Canada.
Her fine art work has been exhibited internationally, (Canada, US, Mexico and Europe). Her work has always been about cities, the environment, its people, and the interplay between these elements.
