Ted grant photographer biography video

One person I was and will always be enormously inspired by that we’ve lost is Ted Grant, the "Father of Canadian Photojournalism."

He earned the title as one of Canada’s most accomplished and prolific photojournalists with 280,000 images in the National Archives of Canada and another 100,000 images in the National Gallery of Canada’s Museum of Contemporary Photography.

These images, which comprise the largest collection by an individual photographer in the history of Canada, were honored by the University of Victoria with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree in recognition of his remarkable and outstanding career.

Quietly clicking with “the eye of an artist, the concentration of a surgeon and the reflexes of a cat,” Ted created iconic images for well over half a century, including his award-winning images of Pierre Trudeau sliding down the banister and the photograph of Ben Johnson becoming the faste