Freeman Patterson - New Brunswick

Freeman Patterson is internationally recognized as a photographer, teacher of visual design, and writer. His books include Namaqualand: Garden of the Gods; Portraits of Earth; Shadowlight; The Garden; Canada: A Year of the Land; Between Friends/Entre Amis, and many instructional books on the subject of photography and visual design. He received a master’s degree in divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. Through the years, Mr. Patterson has received numerous awards and honours, including Gold Medals for distinguished contribution to photography from Canada’s National Association for Photographic Art and The National Film Board of Canada. In 1985, Freeman was awarded The Order of Canada, and in 1990, he received the Progress Medal, the highest award offered by the Photographic Society of America. In 1995 he received a Fellowship in the Photographic Society of South Africa and shortly thereafter, a Fellowship in The Nature Photographic Society of New Zealand and Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Nature Photographic Association. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and his photographic images have been accepted into the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada. Mr. Patterson regularly conducts photographic workshops from his home in Shamper’s Bluff, New Brunswick, and he travels the world to photograph and teach.
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