86-year old Arnaud Maggs Wins It All - Scotibank Photography Award
  .    $50,000 Cash Prize. A Book Deal and An Exhibition Next Year     2012 Scotiabank Photography Award  L-R, MC and Arts Editor at the Globe Gabe Gonda, Janes  Nokes, Exec. Dir. SPA  with SPA winner Arnaud Maggs;  and photographer Ed Burtynsky, Chair SPA .   Toronto  artist Arnaud Maggs received the  second annual Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA) at a ceremony held  this evening at Toronto's Design Exchange.  Celebrating excellence in  contemporary photography, the $50,000  award, solo Scotiabank CONTACT  Photography Festival exhibition in 2013 and book deal with  international art photography publisher Steidl, is Canada's largest  prize for an established Canadian photographic artist.   "To receive this award is an honour, and it too is an honour to be named  in the company of my gifted peers, Fred Herzog  and Alain Paiement,"  said Arnaud Maggs. "Scotiabank's work over the past years both through  its involvement in the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Fe...