Nikon Canada hosts lecture series, contests, and student gallery at Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

For the sixth year in a row, Nikon Canada is working with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, which brings in over 1,500 artists in 200 exhibitions and events in the Greater Toronto Area. This year, Nikon has three different activities going on: one is its weekly photo contest, another is lectures hosted by Nikon Canada Ambassadors, and another is a youth project.

The Reflections Weekly Photo Contest is happening from April 29 to May 31, 2016. Winners stand a chance to take home a Nikon D5500 DSLR each week and the grand prize winner will get a limited edition print of BAU grid by Takashi Suzuki. You can get full contest rules and details here. As for the lectures, these will be happening during Tuesdays of the month of May with some of Nikon’s Ambassadors including Nick Didlick, Craig Minielly, Michelle Valberg, and Kristian Bogner. You can register here for the lectures happening at St. Paul’s Bloor Street, Cody Hall (227 Bloor Street East, Toronto, ON, M4W 1C8).  

Also happening is the inaugural youth project by Nikon Canada called Community. During April and May, the Arts Committee at West Region 6 of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is holding a digital photography contest for grade 1-8 students in 23 schools with the theme “Community.” The winning students get a chance to have their photos displayed as well as a Nikon DSLR camera. The culminating event for the contest will take place on May 11 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at Islington Junior Middle School’s Community Gallery in Toronto (44 Cordova Avenue, Toronto). Each school will select three final images for display at the Gallery. A panel of judges – consisting of representatives from TDSB and CONTACT – will select three winners out of 69 finalists to become the grand prize winners.