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Adrian Wyld The Adrian Wyld photo on our cover shows Team Canada defenceman Thomas Hickey racing to celebrate with goalie Dustin Tokarski at the end of the gold medal game of the world junior hockey championship in Ottawa last January, having just defeated Sweden 5 – 1 to win Canada’s fifth straight world junior championship [...]

Lucas Oleniuk Lucas Oleniuk is a 30-year-old staff photographer with the Toronto Star. His roots lie in Saskatoon where he started working as a photographer with the University of Saskatchewan Sheaf Newspaper while pursuing a degree in literature. He made his his fourth trip to Beijing In August for his first Olympic assignment. Our cover [...]

BERNARD BRAULT by Steve McAllister Bernard Brault was captivated by sports photos as a teenager. At 18, armed with his first camera, a Canon FTB (which he keeps as a memento), he decided to try to create some himself. He took a three month course at a private school in Montreal and then continued on [...]

MIKE RIDEWOOD Mike Ridewood began his news career in Ottawa in 1975 as a copy runner for the Canadian Press. In five years at CP he advanced to staff photographer under a contract between CP and the Ottawa Journal. Mike has been freelancing in Calgary since 1981 working with wire services, newspapers, magazines, photo agencies, [...]

FRANK GUNN by Don Goodwin Toronto-based CP photographer Frank Gunn , the recipient of the 2006 Sports Media Canada Outstanding Sports Photography Award will need a larger trophy shelf. He also won a top prize in Canadian journalism in June for a feature photo he took last year. It was his second National Newspaper Award. [...]

KEN FAUGHT A visual artist originally from the West Coast, photographer Ken Faught, 53, has spent the past two decades traveling Canada and the world making pictures for the Toronto Star, the country’s largest newspaper. Born in Prince Rupert, B.C. he began his career by venturing with his cameras to Yellowknife and Whitehorse covering the [...]

PETER JONES, Reuters by Steve McAlister Reuters Chief photographer Peter Jones has been nominated twice for a National Newspaper Award and now his superlative technical skills, sense of anticipation and ‘eye’ for the ‘shot that tells the story’ have been recognized by Sports Media Canada with the 2003 Outstanding Sports Photography Award. Peter was born [...]

GREG SOUTHAM, Edmonton Journal Greg Southam’s first sports photography job was in 1985 – photographing the Manitoba team preparing for and participating in the Canada Summer Games in St. John, New Brunswick. That experience sparked his love of capturing sports images. Southam joined the photography staff at the Edmonton Journal in 1988. He has been [...]