Brian Condron Author

Brian Condron was born in Toronto, Canada in 1949. He picked up a camera at the age of eighteen after seeing a touring National Film Board exhibition Call Them Canadians. From that time on, photography has been his passion and his professional life. After graduating from Sheridan College (Applied Photography) in 1971 and from York University (BFA, Visual Arts) in 1976, Condon pursued an interest in black and white social landscape photography. He exhibited widely during this time, surviving through part-time teaching, photo sales, and the generosity of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. In the mid 1980s Condron was offered a part-time newspaper job in Toronto at The Financial Post. This position led him to become a newspaper/magazine photographer, albeit an unusual one, always with a small Leica in his kit. In 1990, Condon immigrated to Australia where he worked for The Australian newspaper and for BRW magazine. These days, Brian Condron lives just outside Brisbane with Desley, his wife. He continues taking pictures and has recently returned to exhibiting. And he still carries that Leica. Author and musician Dave Bidini is the only person to have been nominated for a Gemini, a Genie, and a Juno. A founding member of Rheostatics and a member of Bidiniband, he has written 13 books, including On a Cold Road (a finalist for CBC Radio’s Canada Reads competition), Tropic of Hockey, Around the World in 57 1/2 Gigs, and his most recent, Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to the North. In 2017 he launched the broadsheet newspaper West End Phoenix, and in 2023 he co-directed the CBC series “Summit ’72.”