The New Generation Photography Award: Identity and Personal Histories

Based in Winnipeg, Luther Konadu is a photographer, writer and content creator for the online publication Public Parking. His studio activities are project-based and realized through photographic print media and painting processes. He acknowledges the legacies of these mediums as interpretive sites for generating new conventions and expanding fixed narratives. He recently showed work at New York City’s Aperture Foundation and is the writer-in-residence for Gallery 44.

The work of St. John’s photographer Ethan Murphy links identity and place by reflecting on the psychological impact of Newfoundland’s rural environment. His images display a fluctuating perspective acquired from his leaving and returning to the island and attempting to reconnect with its remote areas. Using photography as a mediator, Murphy reconciles his relationship with identity and loss while examining the Newfoundland landscape post cod moratorium.

Zinnia Naqvi is a visual artist from Toronto. Her work combines photography, video, writings, archival footage and installation. Her practice questions the relationship between authenticity and narrative, while dealing with larger themes of post-colonialism, cultural translation, language and gender. She recently received an honourable mention at the 2017 Karachi Biennale in Pakistan and was an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario as part of the EMILIA-AMALIA Working Group.