Stephen Uhraney is an award-winning Canadian photojournalist and documentary photographer whose work looks beyond the surface to capture the essence of life. In 2024, he became the only Canadian ever to win the International Association of Fire Fighters Media Award for his “On Duty” documentary, a four-month immersion with Fire Station 104 in Port Credit. He was named Mississauga’s visual Artist of the Year in 2023 and received the 2024 Heritage Mississauga Modern Heritage Award for his long-term documentation of Port Credit. His acclaimed projects include Life in the Marsh, a two-year documentary on migrant farm workers in the Holland Marsh which was featured in the 2013 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, he has also produced five solo exhibitions. A former staff photographer with the Toronto Sun and a current contributing photographer with Canadian Press Images, his work has been featured on CBC’s local and national newscasts, and continues to resonate locally, nationally, and internationally. This Fall, Uhraney will also be teaching at George Brown College sharing his immersive approach to documentary photography with a new generation of artists.
