Bryan Harvey

In 1971, Bryan Harvey bought his first camera. With this he took photographs of Africa and the Middle East while working for a marine seismic exploration operation.
His camera came with him on his arrival in Canada the following year.
In the late eighties Bryan took a night course at Camosum College (now Vancouver Island University) in freelance photography. Ted Grant "the father of Canadian photojournalism" was one photographer who shared his knowledge and experience with those participating in the class. Following this Bryan exhibited and sold photographs in the Victoria area.
In 2005 Bryan retired from his Victoria business to the "view" in Lake Cowichan. A riverside property on a wide section of the Cowichan River known as the "big pool", it became the subject of many photos by Bryan. In a time of the emergence of digital camera technology, when practically everyone could be a photographer, Bryan went retrograde. Taking a different flow, he took a large format film camera on a river raft , riding the Tatshenshini River down to the Alaskan coast.
When Bryan researched large format photography,. what he found particularly helpful was looking at illustrated art history books, and how various artists...

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Most recent exhibition was with the Sidney Fine Arts Show in Sidney B.C.Canada