Over the past four decades, internationally renowned photographer Peter Bregg has traveled to more than 75 countries and captured some of the world’s most compelling stories on film.
Before working on private commissions, Peter was photo editor at HELLO! Magazine, and chief photographer and photo editor at Maclean’s. He has also worked as a photographer and editor with the Canadian Press, and the Associated Press in London, New York and Washington, DC, and was the official photographer to Brian Mulroney between 1984 and 1985.
His journalism assignments have included eight Olympic Games, several Stanley Cups, World Series, Presidential trips, Vietnam in 1973, the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979-80, and the imposition of martial law on the Solidarity movement in Poland in 1981.
He was also in New York to cover the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001. In 2006, Peter accompanied WaterCan to Ethiopia, where he documented the visit of Margaret Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire to several of WaterCan’s clean water and sanitation project sites. In October 2009, he traveled throughout Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya documenting WaterCan’s development efforts for the purposes of developing Water for Life: An African Photo Exhibit.
Peter has won numerous awards including a World Press Photo Award, NPPA Regional Photographer of the Year, Canadian Press Photo of the Year, a Canadian National Newspaper Award and White House News Photographers Association Awards, to name a few.
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