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Scotiabank Photography Award reveals short list for $50K prize

Just two days after winning a $25,000 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Suzy Lake of Toronto is up for another prestigious prize.

Suzy Lake, Pascal Grandmaison and Jayce Salloum reach finals

Visual artist Suzy Lake, creator of this 2013 image entitled Reduced Performing, is the latest winner of the Scotiabank Photography Prize. (Suzy Lake)

Just two days after winning a $25,000 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Suzy Lake of Toronto is up for another prestigious prize.

Lake is one of three finalists for this year's $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award.

Montreal's Pascal Grandmaison, who created this 2009 piece entitled Fake Imagery of a World Upside Down, is also a finalist. (Pascal Grandmaison)

The other finalists are Pascal Grandmaison of Montreal and Jayce Salloum of Vancouver.

Founded in 2010, the honour is billed as Canada's largest peer-nominated, peer-reviewed photography award.

It honours a mid- to later-career artist.

The winner chosen by jury members Robert Bean, Catherine Bedard and Robert Enright will be announced May 3.

Vancouver photographer Jayce Salloum, behind this 1992 image entitled at the end of the 'Nation state,' rounds out the finalists. (Jayce Salloum)