ABOUT | ARTIST CV
Jonathan Taggart is an award-winning photojournalist based in Vancouver, Canada, specializing in social documentary, editorial photography, photographic tour diaries for musicians and visual advocacy for the Non-Profit sector.
His photographs and writing have been published internationally and across Canada, recently earning him a National Magazine Award nomination in Photojournalism for his photo essay ‘Salt & Earth’ in Brairpatch Magazine. In 2008 he was awarded a Scotiabank Scholarship to Magnum Workshop Toronto, where he worked under the guidance of Canadian photojournalist Larry Towell.
His exhibitions of documentary photography have twice been supported by the Arts Council of Ontario, have been profiled as “must-see” in Toronto’s CONTACT Photography Festival, and have been featured in Applied Arts Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Life Magazine and Mass Art Guide.
Jonathan has taken his storyteller’s eye on tour with Canadian musicians such as Dan Mangan, Jeremy Fisher, Said The Whale, Hannah Georgas and Aidan Knight, and his music photography has appeared on page and screen for The Georgia Straight, Exclaim!, VUE Weekly, The Vancouver Courier, The Province, CBC Radio 3, VancouverIsAwesome.com, SoundProof Magazine, AUX.tv and others.
Non-profit clients include the Canucks Autism Network, Free The Children, the Maytree Foundation, and Canadian Businesses for Social Responsibility. Jonathan also does visual advocacy work in the fields of immigrant employment and youth empowerment for the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table, the Burnaby Board of Trade and the Urban Native Youth Association.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Ryerson University in Toronto. He currently lives in Vancouver where he is focusing his personal work on creating awareness of the challenges facing Aboriginal communities, both urban and rural. He is a founding member of Boreal Collective, a national assemblage of documentary photographers, and teaches photography to at-risk Aboriginal youth as a volunteer with the Urban Native Youth Association. He is currently available for editorial assignments, non-profit work and music commissions, and can be contacted using the information below.
j2taggart@gmail.com604 612 6426
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Photographic Studies
Ryerson University, Toronto
2003-2008
Magnum Workshop Toronto
Larry Towell, instructor
April 2008
EXHIBITIONS (SOLO)‘Salt and Earth’ (solo)
I-M-A Gallery (formerly Ryerson Gallery), Toronto
May – June 2009
CONTACT Photography Festival Feature Exhibition
Supported by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council
CURATORIAL CREDITS‘Stories From Vancouver’
WALRUS, Vancouver
May 2010
EXHIBITIONS (SELECT GROUP)‘Stories From Vancouver’
WALRUS, Vancouver
May 2010
‘An Awesome Showcase’
Shine, Vancouver
February 2010
Olympic Showcase
‘Emergence’
Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto
December 2009
Supported by a grant from the Ontario Arts Council
‘This Day of Change’
Tokyo, Japan
April – August 2009
‘Magnum Workshop Exhibition’
CONTACT Gallery, Toronto
May – June 2008
‘Ryerson University President’s Office Exhibition’
Ryerson University, Toronto
September 2008 – July 2009
‘Maximum Exposure 2008′
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
April 2008
AWARDS & NOMINATIONSNominee: National Magazine Award, Photojournalism, 2010
Recipient: Scotiabank Scholarship to Magnum Workshop Toronto, May 2008
Nominee: Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award, April 2008
PUBLICATIONS (SELECT, PRINT & WEB)Alternatives Journal
Applied Arts Magazine
Briarpatch Magazine
Exclaim! Magazine
M.A.G. (Mass Art Guide)
PDFx | The Reminders Project
PRIVATE Review of Photojournalism
Toronto Life
The Toronto Star
Vancouver Magazine
BOOKS
‘This Day of Change’, Kodansha Ltd, Japan. 2009.
