Peter Martin (photographer)
Peter Martin is one of Canada's most respected photojournalists having covered over 10,000 assignments over an ongoing 40-year career. He became a professional at the age of 16 when a photo of his was published on the front page of a Toronto daily newspaper. At 17 he became the official photographer for the Miss Teen Canada and Miss Canada beauty pageants . He was a staff photojournalist at 3 Canadian newspapers: (Oakville Journal Record, Edmonton Sun, Montreal Gazette).
Career
Over the last 25 years Martin has traveled extensively on assignment throughout Europe, the Orient and the South Pacific. Peter’s work has been published in numerous travel and news magazines (including Time, Newsweek, Macleans, Sports Illustrated) and books including The Day in the Life of Canada, Day in the Life of the N.H.L. and The Ice Storm-An Historic Record of Photographs from January 1998.
Since 2002 his work has been displayed in major solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibits in the US and Canada where he won a major award with the Washington Gallery of Photography and 3 prestigious Jurors Choice Awards for the Maryland Federation of Art.
He has recently resigned from the Montreal Gazette where he was a staff photographer for 16 years. In 2014 he opened a studio and gallery in the 12th-century village of Stow-on-the-Wold, England
Famous photos
Terry’s Journey,[1] a photograph of Terry Fox taken during his Marathon of Hope, was chosen by Canada's National History Society as one of "10 images that changed Canada"[2]