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Serge Clément was born in Valleyfield Quebec. He carries out his photographic work in Europe, Asia and in the U.S.  Mr. Clément has exhibited in Montreal, Hong Kong,  Barcelona, Salamanca (Spain), Braga (Portugal), Charleroi, (Belgium), Mexico City, Groningen (Netherlands) and at the Mois de la Photo in Paris. He has produced four monographs which include Fragrant Light, Vertige Vestige, Cité fragile and Halloween 95 Montréal.

His work is collected by the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, la Bibliotheque Nationale ˆ Paris, le Musée de la Photographie de Charleroi en Belgique, le Heritage Museum ˆ Hong Kong et le Musée Nicéphore Niepce en France. Mr. Clément and lives and works in Montreal.  

Andrew Danson Danushevsky was born in Bournemouth, England and came to Canada on a ship with his mother in 1945.  After graduating from the University of Guelph he began working in the areas of commercial, editorial and fine art photography.  In 1987 Mr. Danson published his best-selling book Unofficial Portraits, Canadian Politicians Photographed by Themselves.  His second book entitled Face Kao  (1997) contained portraits of Japanese Canadians interned by the government of Canada during World War Two.

Mr. Danson' s work is exhibited internationally and collected by the Library of Congress, Washington D.C, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris, Le Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi (Belgium), Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Archives of Canada, City of Toronto Archives and private collections.  Mr. Danson who works as a curator, educator and designer lives in Toronto.

Born in Santiago, Chile, Rafael Goldchain received a Master of Fine Arts from, York University, and a Bachelor of Applied Arts from the Film and Photography Department of Ryerson Polytechnic University.  His work has been exhibited in Canada, the U.S., Cuba, Germany, and Mexico.   Mr. Goldchain was a recipient of the 1988 Leopold Godowsky Award in Colour Photography from the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, and in 1989 he received the Duke and Duchess of York Photography Award from The Canada Council.

His work is collected by the Biblioteque National in Paris, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada Council Art Bank, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. Mr. Goldchain currently teaches photography and digital art at York University and at Sheridan College.

David Hlynsky was born in the U.S. and immigrated to Toronto in 1971.  He has exhibited as a painter and photographer worked as a graphic designer, writer and publisher. He has contributed to projects in live theatre and in children's T.V. production. He is currently teaching photographic aesthetics and computer graphics at Sheridan College and at the University of Toronto.  Between 1986-90 Mr. Hlynsky produced  a large body of documentary photography in Communist Europe.

He has been awarded  numerous grants and eleven permanent public art commissions involving photography or sculpture. Wilderness Camp is a recreational project that takes him to the Canadian landscape to investigate linguistic and pictorial descriptions of nature.  There he escapes urban life and carries out his photographic practice with much the same leisure and pace of the nineteenth century landscape painter.    

Thaddeus Holownia was born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1952.  He studied Communications and Fine Arts at the University of  Windsor. Mr. Holownia's selected exhibitions include: the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,  McCord Museum (Montreal ),  Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax),  Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina),  Jane Corkin Gallery (Toronto),  Art Gallery of Hamilton and  Presentation House, Vancouver. Mr. Holownia's prints and bookworks are collected by the National Gallery of Canada, Yale University, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Imperial Oil, Xerox Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, and other public and private collections.

Thaddeus Holownia has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Royal Canadian Academy for the Arts, and Mount Allison University (Teaching Awards).  He has also been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. Mr. Holownia is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Brenda Francis Pelkey was born in Kingston, Ontario and moved to Saskatchewan in 1980, where she worked with the photographic community through venues such as Blackflash Magazine and the Photographers Gallery. In 1994, she completed her MFA at the University of Saskatchewan where she worked as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History. Ms. Pelkey is currently Director of the School of the Visual Arts at the University of Windsor.