Scotiabank and Toronto's Contact Photography Festival announced today that the Toronto festival's renaming to be Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and introduced the Scotiabank Photography Award for 2011.
The Scotiabank Photography Award will be the largest photography award dedicated to recognizing Canadian contemporary artists working in photography. Launching in September 2010 and to be awarded in 2011, the award will consist of a $50,000 cash prize, a pre-negotiated book publishing contract by internationally acclaimed photographic art publisher, Steidl, and a feature exhibition in the following year's Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. World renowned Canadian photographer Ed Burtynsky will chair a panel of three judges for the award in 2011.
http://www.scotiabankcontactphoto.com/
Cheers,
Eric Milner
Still Photographer