O. Winston Link

Our next Artist You Need To Know is O. Winston Link (1914 – 2001). Ogle Winston Link was an American photographer (though he was trained and worked as a civil engineer) whose many black and white photographs and sound recordings of the ‘last days of steam...

Fred Herzog

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fred Herzog (1930 – 2019). Fred Herzog’s artistic practice was an extension of his walking the streets of Vancouver (and almost forty other countries) with his Leica camera. Using colour slide film almost exclusively,...

Mary Ellen Mark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Mary Ellen Mark (1941–2015). It is difficult to imagine contemporary photography and especially photography in the United States without the contributions and legacy of Mary Ellen Mark. She was an American photographer known for her...

Jeff Thomas

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Jeff Thomas. Governor General Award winner Jeff Thomas is a photographer, curator, and cultural theorist. Self identifying as Urban-Iroquois, Thomas’ photographic practice re-contextualizes historical images of Indigenous...

Fiona Annis

Our next Artist You Need To Know is FIONA ANNIS. Annis is a multidisciplinary artist (often creating environments that employ visuals and sound) whose artwork often intersects with photography in both a contemporary and historical sense. She was born in Glasgow,...