Colin Ferguson
Born in Glasgow Scotland, Colin Ferguson immigrated to Canada and studied photography at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (1977 – 1979). He later worked in commercial photography and took his B.A. in Art & Design, Literature, and Philosophy at the University of Alberta (1988). In 1990, he began teaching Photographic Arts at the Alberta College of Art + Design, while also freelancing as an agricultural journalist, technical writer, and editor for Parks Canada. He eventually created his Mountain Light Studio in Canmore (1998), where he worked full-time.
Because of his passion for the Rocky Mountains, and the people who visit them and live among them, Ferguson created the centennial multimedia exhibition Changes at the Canmore Centennial Museum and Geoscience Centre. Consisting of museum-quality large format ink jet images printed on rag paper, the exhibit also contained interviews with its photographic subjects, the diverse residents who’d witnessed Canmore transform its mining past to tourism present. At the same time, Ferguson’s Faces of Canmore hung in Canmore’s Civic Centre for Alberta’s centennial and profiled the citizens who included
Olympic gold medallists, cowboys, town employees, teachers, and film-makers.
Ferguson eventually earned his B.Ed. in English Language Arts from MacEwan University (2011). He’s served on the Alberta College of Art + Design’s Curriculum Task Committee and was the vice president of its college faculty association. He’s an accredited Environmental Wedding Photographer with the Professional Photographers of Canada, and belongs to the Alberta Professional Photographers Association. The public collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and private collections in Canada and the U.K., include his fine art photographs.
Because of his passion for the Rocky Mountains, and the people who visit them and live among them, Ferguson created the centennial multimedia exhibition Changes at the Canmore Centennial Museum and Geoscience Centre. Consisting of museum-quality large format ink jet images printed on rag paper, the exhibit also contained interviews with its photographic subjects, the diverse residents who’d witnessed Canmore transform its mining past to tourism present. At the same time, Ferguson’s Faces of Canmore hung in Canmore’s Civic Centre for Alberta’s centennial and profiled the citizens who included
Olympic gold medallists, cowboys, town employees, teachers, and film-makers.
Ferguson eventually earned his B.Ed. in English Language Arts from MacEwan University (2011). He’s served on the Alberta College of Art + Design’s Curriculum Task Committee and was the vice president of its college faculty association. He’s an accredited Environmental Wedding Photographer with the Professional Photographers of Canada, and belongs to the Alberta Professional Photographers Association. The public collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and private collections in Canada and the U.K., include his fine art photographs.