The Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward program is an annual competition that showcases the work being created by the very best emerging photographers from Canada, the UK and the United States. Every year, judges from each of the participating and international countries review the submitted work and identify those young people that they believe show great promise as professional fine art or documentary photographers.

The Flash Forward 2012 Group Show features a select cross-section chosen from the bodies of work featured in the competition catalog. The photography covers all genres from documentary, photojournalism and fine art studio practices and shows how each of these young photographers are affected and influenced by their mentors, interests and choices of subject matter.

The Flash Forward 2012 Group Show pays tribute to the diversity of the annual program and its growing profile, offering evidence that the best emerging photographers are cutting edge of the direction that photography will take in future years.

The following artists are featured in the Flash Forward 2012 Group Show at Salt:

Bright Spark Winner, Evgenia Arbugaeva, US

Canada: Jessica Ginzel, Lissy Elle Laricchia, Stacey Tyrell

United Kingdom: Maja Daniels, Michal Solarski, Maxwell Anderson

United States: Jenn Ackerman, Juan Arredondo, David P. Welch

Citizen Journalism Training Project

Speak Out Tunisia is a citizen journalism training project that aims to teach a diverse group of Tunisian citizens about digital media and online journalism. After 23 years of oppression without a free press under Dictator Ben Ali, Speak Out Tunisia seeks to return the power of a free and fair press to the Tunisian people. After the success of our first Speak Out Tunisia training in the spring of 2012, we are launching our second training for another two groups of citizens– one beginner group and one advanced group — for three weeks in the coastal city of Monastir in January 2013. Anne Bailey will be the lead instructor again for this second session.