85 Queen: An Evening with Peter Bregg

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Registration required85 Queen: An Evening with Peter Bregg


The Read. Learn. Live. photography exhibit, by artist Peter Bregg. A focus on the global learning crisis.

Over the past five decades, award winning photojournalist (including Amnesty International Award, 2017) Peter Bregg C.M. has travelled to more than 85 countries and captured some of the world’s most compelling stories with his camera.

Mr. Bregg served at Rogers Publishing for twenty years, including chief photographer at Maclean’s for 17 years. 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 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1984-85.

His assignments have included eight Olympic Games, Stanley Cups, World Series, Presidential trips, Vietnam in 1973, the Iran 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. Mr. Bregg has been an active member of PhotoSensitive – a photo collective that uses photography to support charitable causes – since its founding in 1990.

He has travelled to Africa 13 times since 2002 and to the Middle East 4 times in the last 4 years, including trips to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Peter's exhibit is on display in the library from February 4 - 16, Theatre Lobby.


Event Type(s): 85 Queen, Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Age Group(s): Adults, All Ages