George Hunter

George Hunter (1921 – 10 April 2013) was a Canadian documentary photographer born in Regina, Saskatchewan. His career spanned seven decades capturing industrial and landscape scenes on photographic film. His early work was for the National Film Board of Canada in the 1940s. He was a pilot, and aerial photography was one of his specialties. His work included a 12-page cover story for Time Magazine in 1954. Other prominent uses of his work included being the basis of images printed by the Bank of Canada for three of its early 1970s bank notes. One of his photographs is contained on the Voyager Golden Record carried on the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar space probes. He spent his final years living in Mississauga, Ontario, where he died in 2013.

Career He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and started taking photographs professionally for the newspapers like the Winnipeg Tribune. He worked for the Tribune during World War II. He also worked for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1940s. The image showed indigenous fishers setting up their seine net to catch salmon in British Columbia's Johnstone Strait. One of his photographs – of Toronto's Pearson International Airport – was included on the Voyager Golden Record carried on the Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar space probes. In May 2017, the NFB and Canadian publisher Firefly Books announced that a selection of Hunter's work would be published in book form as George Hunter's Canada: Iconic Images from Canada's Most Prolific Photographer.