Awards

Congratulations to the following 2024 award winners:

Canon Best in Show
Junsoo Lee

Canon Award of Excellence, 4th Year
Killian Duivenvoorden
Isaias Souvervielle

Pikto Awards
Lee Ma
Dalia Rahhal

Photography Student Council Award
Isaias Souvervielle

POV Prize for Photographic Excellence and Personal Expression
Killian Duivenvoorden

Sheridan Student Union Award
Zoe Mouligne

Gian Carlo Drueco Award
Junsoo Lee

Josko Rosenwirth Scholarship
Amber D’Costa
Megan Scarrow

2024 Panel of Judges

Marco D’Angelo
Marco is the Executive Producer of Impossible Studios, a Canadian production company that represents some of the best photographers and directors in the industry. Marco started his career in advertising as a copywriter, with roles at FCB, Blackjet, and DDB — later moving to Rogers Communications where he helped start their internal agency and production company. While at Rogers, Marco and his team produced stills and motion projects for brands that include Chatelaine, Walmart, Sportsnet, Nestle, The Toronto Raptors & Maple Leafs, Maclean’s and more. Marco shifted  completely from creative work to production, before leaving Rogers to start Impossible Studios in 2020, which has since grown into an award-winning production company with clients that include McDonald’s, Rolex, Bud Light, and works with some of the biggest agencies in Canada and abroad. When he's not working, Marco enjoys spending time with his wife Christina, their baby Elio, and their puppy Pino. When he is working, you’ll usually find him hovering around the craft table, stuffing himself with snacks.

Wade Hudson
Wade specializes in portraiture. He celebrates his subjects’ joy and captures their vulnerability in an intimate fashion. The highly approachable Wade brings out the playful side of personalities — whether they’re everyday people, models or celebrities. In addition to his commercial work, he also specializes in fashion and beauty. Wade is a virtuoso of lighting technique, inside and outside the studio. He brilliantly illuminates a person’s complexion, bringing out the best in each of his subjects, in any environment. He describes his work as “honest and personal.” His clients describe it as “flawless.”

He is represented by Westside Studio.

Alex Jacobs-Blum
Alex is a Gayogo̱hó:nǫʼ (Cayuga) and German visual artist and curator living in Hamilton, ON. Her research focuses on Indigenous futures and accessing embodied Ancestral Hodinöhsö:ni’ knowledge. The core of her practice and methodology is a strong foundation in community building, fostering relationships, empowering youth, and Indigenizing institutional spaces. Her creative process is rooted in cyclical storytelling and challenging hierarchical power structures. Jacobs-Blum endeavours to facilitate transformative change infused with love and care, guided by anti-oppressive and anti-racist modalities.

Alex Jacobs-Blum received a Bachelor of Photography at Sheridan College in 2015, where she was awarded the Canon Award of Excellence for Narrative Photography. Her artistic work has been exhibited at the University of Ottawa, Centre[3] for Artistic + Social Practice, Woodland Cultural Centre, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and most recently in a solo exhibition at The Art Gallery of Hamilton. Alex is a member of the Bawaadan Collective and represented by the AGH Art Sales + Services.

Hamin Lee
Hamin is a Toronto-based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in product, people and automotive photography. He has won awards and recognition for his work from the ADCC, Applied Arts, Communication Arts, PDN, and Marketing. He loves the whole creative process of picture-making and visual story-telling.   

He feels that image-making — be it in a still or narrative form — should be simple and elicit an emotional response for it to be an effective communication piece. And those are his goals with every project he works on.

He loves his uber-active family but admits to having trouble keeping up with his wife and their four boys and often uses photography as an excuse for not keeping pace. He also loves being the sole snowboarder in a family of skiers, riding his motorcycle in the country as often as he can, and serving his community.

As of this writing he is the second shortest member of his family. Hamin is represented by Fuze Reps.

Jennifer Roberts
Jennifer is an award winning artist with a background in photojournalism. She recently moved into commercial photography and directing and brings this interest in real stories and human connection to her advertising work. She has an innate ability to put people at ease and tell even challenging stories in a gentle, genuine way. For her recent project, 24 Hours of Care she won a YDA for Charity Commercial at Cannes, won a bronze at Shots Awards of the Americas for Charity Spot, the work also won a Gold and Silver Clio Health awards.

She completed her BFA at OCAD University, was a student in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Documentary Media MFA program and a student in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXII. Jennifer, her partner and their young daughter divide their time between Venice, California and Toronto, Canada.