February 17, 2026 - Canadian / Photographer / War - Conflict

Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson was born in 1970 in western Canada and raised in Texas. His path to photography was not immediate; he spent time drifting, working odd jobs, and slowly discovering that the camera offered him a way of engaging with the world that nothing else could match. His early work as a photojournalist took him […]

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February 17, 2026 - Canadian / Photographer / Social - Street

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky was born in 1955 in St. Catharines, Ontario, a city in the industrial heartland of Canada’s Niagara region. His parents were Ukrainian immigrants, and his father worked at the local General Motors plant — a detail of biography that would prove formative, for it was in the vast, roaring factories and the scarred […]

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February 17, 2026 - Canadian / Conceptual / Photographer

Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall was born in 1946 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has remained based in that city throughout his career, making it both his home and his primary subject. He studied art history at the University of British Columbia, completing a master’s thesis on the Berlin Dada movement, and subsequently spent time in London at […]

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February 17, 2026 - Canadian / Photographer / Social - Street

Naomi Harris

Naomi Harris is a Canadian documentary photographer based in Toronto whose work has consistently been drawn to the margins of North American culture — the communities, rituals, and gathering places where people shed their everyday inhibitions and construct alternative versions of themselves. Her photographs are characterised by their vivid colour, their unflinching intimacy, and their […]

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February 17, 2026 - Canadian / Photographer / Social - Street

Yousuf Karsh

Yousuf Karsh was born on 23 December 1908 in Mardin, a city in the Armenian heartland of the Ottoman Empire, into a family that would soon be engulfed by one of the twentieth century’s great catastrophes. During the Armenian Genocide, the young Karsh witnessed violence and deprivation that scarred him for life. In 1924, at […]

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RESOURCES

This is where I keep the research — over 200 studies of the photographers, writers, curators and exhibitions I’ve found most compelling. Each entry offers a summary of their practice together with a few examples of their work, where copyright permits.

FOCUS


Browse by genre (use the hamburger menu above on mobile) — Street, Fashion, Landscape, Documentary and others. Most of these categories took shape during my MFA studies and many of the people here appear in multiple categories.

NATIONALITIES

View landmark exhibitions like New Topographics and The Family of Man alongside individual studies of Magnum photographers and many others, like the "Terrible Three", who have shaped the way we see.