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PUNCH 3 PUNCH 3 includes a selection of work from the exhibition with the same name that took place in early 2007. The ten promising new sparks here are: Miles Collyer, Robyn Cumming, Katyuska Doleatto, Erica Eyres, Adam Harrison, Davida Nemeroff, Elise Rasmussen, Tim Saltarelli, Simon Willms and Balint Zsako. These artists will be among the most recognized names representing Canadian new photography today.

Yao Jui-Chung: Long March-Shifted the Universe Yao Jui-chung is the best known Taiwanese photo artist today. Long March - Shifted The Universe is a project Yao Jui-chung accomplished in 2002 in response to the invitation from the curator Lu Jie of The Long March Foundation (2000 New York). The Long March Project was initiated in 1999 and have already been participated by over 150 artists working in various locations along the Long March routes. The historical Long March (in China) lasted two years, from October 1934 to October 1936, and covered a distance of 25,000 li (miles). It was not only a record of the bloody strife between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT), but it also changed the future of China. The CCP called it the “25,000-li Long March”, while the KMT called it the “25,000-li banishment”. Yao had photographed ten historical Long March locations and performed "hand-stand" in front of the sites. The ten photographs in this series are 20"x24", gelatin silver prints, 10 editions and available only in a full set at US$20,000.

half awake and half asleep in the water The Japanese photographer Asako Narahashi began her "half awake and half asleep in the water" probably in 1998. These photographs are images that peek from this shore through to the other shore. They look candid and relax, but are the labour of courage and love from an artist who is not a great swimmer. Asako Narahashi's work has been featured in public galleries, museums and international publications such as Zoom (2002). She was in the group exhibition BLACK OUT Contemporary Japanese Photography in Paris and Okinawa in 2003. In 2004 her work was exhibited in BankArt 1929, Yokohama along with Daido Moriyama, Ryuji Miyamoto and the others. She is among one of the most important photographers in today's Japanese photography scene.

Danwen Xing: China Avant-Garde Portfolio Historical speaking, DanWen Xing's photographs on China Avant-Garde artists in the early 90s is an important documentation of the germinating contemporary art activities during that period. The portfolio has included many of today's most renowned Chinese artists, their art activities and performances. In early 2002, in collaboration with Xing, a selection of 100 images in 8"x10" format, each printed in 100 editions (C-type prints) were chosen to be included in the OP Print Program. In recognition of the value and significance of this body of work, the publisher Scalo will be publishing 100+ images from the Avant-Garde series in 2007.

Gary Michael Dault's New 1-minute Paintings 0n Cereal Boxes Gary Micahel Dault's talent is multi-faceted. He is an art critic for The newspaper Globe & Mail (Canada), he writes poems and has already several books published, he paints and is frequently invited to exhibit his work. Only a few years ago he started to produce paintings on cereal boxes and has since put up two shows of these small jewels. Entitled as "1-minute Paintings on Cereal Boxes", each painting, as Dault described, took less than one minute to accomplish. These "ready made" canvases have been invaded upon with playful brush strokes, colours from day to night, dawn to dusk, forming endless landscape of islands, rocks, seas and skies. The exuberant 60-seconds work on small surfaces almost sounds experimental and indeed the activity, according to the artist, is always an astonishing and discovering one.