Sherman Hines

Sherman Hines (born 1941) is a Canadian photographer, born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

Photography Hines first studied photography while in the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he received a diploma in photography, followed by four years of study at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to taking and publishing photographs, Hines has lectured extensively on photography throughout Canada and the United States, including fourteen years at the West Coast School of Photography in California.

Other activities Hines has an interest in architecture that has had him purchase and restore historic buildings in Nova Scotia, It has four galleries, one of which houses a permanent exhibit of photographs and artifacts of Hines, Yousuf Karsh, Wallace MacAskill, and William Notman. The other three galleries are used for temporary exhibits.

Established in 2002, the Rossignol Cultural Centre, located in Liverpool, is housed in a former high school that was to be demolished. The museum consists of five galleries, which includes an apothecary museum, a wildlife art gallery, folk and fine art, a hunting, fishing and guiding museum, a Mi’kmaq museum, a trapper’s cabin, and an outdoor cultural village.

The Rossignol Cultural Centre also includes a museum featuring another interest of Hines: outhouses. This museum is the only one of its kind in North America. According to Hines's research, it is the oldest building in Canada east of Quebec City.

Honours Hines has been granted a Fellowship in the American Society of Photographers and been named Canadian Photographer of the Year. He also has two gold medals of excellence in photography from The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia and the National Association for Photographic Art. In May 1998, Saint Mary's University in Halifax granted Hines an Honorary Doctor of Letters. His wife is Andrea.

Publications Hines has published more than 70 books (many of which were best sellers), as well as other products such as calendars. Hines's published works include:

Nova Scotia : the Lighthouse Route and the Annapolis Valley Oxford University Press (1979) Newfoundland Pictorial Cookbook Nimbus Publishing (1984) The North Nimbus Publishing (1984) Extraordinary light: A vision of Canada Etue & Co. Inc./Stone House Pub. (1988) Halifax Nimbus Publishing, Canada (1990) Peggy's Cove Nimbus Publishing (1992) The Outhouse Revisited (with Don Harron) Firefly Books (1996) Evangeline Trail Nimbus Publishing (1997) Panorama Nova Scotia Nimbus Publishing (1998) Outhouses of the West Firefly Books (2000) Mahone Bay Nimbus Publishing (2002)