Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog (1930–2019) was a German-born Canadian photographer. From the 1950s on, he walked the streets of Vancouver with colour slide film, at a time when serious photography was almost always black and white.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank (1924–2019) was a Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker who moved to New York in 1947. His book The Americans, made on a Guggenheim-funded road trip in 1955 and 1956, changed how photographers saw everyday life.
Paul Nicklen
Paul Nicklen (born 1968) is a Canadian photographer and marine biologist who works mostly in the Arctic and Antarctica. He has photographed more than twenty stories for National Geographic, often from under the ice.
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) was an Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer. He came to Canada as a young refugee and opened a studio in Ottawa in 1932.