2009 Adrian Wyld

Adrian Wyld

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 Adrian Wyld is a staff photographer with The Canadian Press based in Ottawa. He has worked for the wire service for most of his career both as a freelancer and as a staff photographer.

In 1996 he graduated from the commercial photography program at the Dawson Institute of Photography in Montreal, Quebec. Since then he has worked across the country for wire services, newspapers, and commercial clients.

As a national photographer for Canada’s largest wire service he has covered a variety of major news and sporting events nationally and internationally. His coverage has earned him 2002 Canadian Press Enterprise Picture of the Year, eleven CP Picture of the Month awards and now the 2009 Sports Media Canada Outstanding Photography Award.