CULTURAL PHOTO WORKSHOP ADVENTURES +

Biography

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Phil Carpenter is a veteran photojournalist, videojournalist and reporter based in Montreal, Quebec.

He's deeply curious about how people live.  It’s at the heart of his work and it is what brought him to journalism. His 30-plus years as a newspaper photojournalist and, more recently as TV reporter and video journalist, have taken him across the globe reporting on a range of issues.   

First and foremost, Phil is a storyteller.  His love for people and his genuine interest in their experiences and what motivates them, are evident in his reporting.  Much of his focus is on social issues, but he has a particular interest in cultural traditions and rituals. He believes it is these, more than anything else, that define a person. In fact he’s spent the last few years documenting the cultural diversity of Canada, where he lives.

He also has a passion for teaching and spent more than a decade as a part-time lecturer at the School of Journalism, Concordia University in Montreal.  While there he helped develop that institution's Graduate Diploma in Visual Journalism program.  

Phil also spent a month in Rwanda teaching multimedia journalism as part of a programme to train working journalists post Genocide.    

He is the author of Breast Stories, a study through photographic portraits and essays, of mastectomy and female identity.