Photography jury grand prize – Jessica Eaton
“The series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt explores the possibilities of manipulating time, space, perception and, in particular, the additive system of colour. The images from this series are constructed onto single sheets of 4×5 film. The subject in reality is monochromatic. The photographs use a set of cubes and ground options painted white, two tones of grey, and black. Through multiple exposures the colour hues in each image have been made by exposing the film to the additive primaries of red, green and blue. The reflective value of the cubes controls the value or lightness of that hue, and the black is utilised as a type of reflective mask, holding potential on the film for other exposures.”
Jessica Eaton (Canada) studied at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver. In 2011 she exhibited her series Cubes for Albers and LeWitt at the Higher Pictures gallery in New York. That same year she was part of the Flash Forward selection of the Magenta Foundation (Toronto), she was selected and won the Bright Spark Award. Her work was published in the Talent issue of Foam Magazine. Jessica Eaton lives and works in Montreal.
