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Visual journalism is a key part of how The Globe and Mail presents our stories. Compelling photojournalism from across Canada and the world gives a view into the challenges, tragedies and joys we face.
Join The Globe and Mail photojournalist Fred Lum and photo editor Theresa Suzuki for an in-depth discussion of how The Globe approaches photography assignments, insights into the year-long Underexposed photo essay series, and trends in the industry. There will be time for Q&A with the presenters.
Fred and Theresa will be joined by freelance photojournalist, Darren Calabrese.
Light refreshments will be served.
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Fred Lum, a staff photojournalist based in Toronto, Canada, has travelled the world with his cameras and experienced the highs and lows of humanity for the Globe and Mail over a forty year career.
As rewarding as international work can be, there are so many stories in Canada that are worthy of telling and deserve to be seen and heard, you don’t really need a passport to visit the communities where stories are waiting to be revealed.
Over the years, Mr. Lum has covered a diverse range of photo assignments, from The Globe’s China Rising Project in 2004, which documented that country’s emergence as an economic superpower, and four Olympic Games, to performances by the National Ballet of Canada. He captured the excitement of a Toronto Blue Jays World Series win in 1993 and photographed Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista’s legendary bat flip during the 2015 American League Division Series. That shot earned him a National Newspaper Award.
While covering the damage from Hurricane Katrina, he recalls having to remind columnist Christie Blatchford that they needed to turn around because their car’s fuel gauge was at the halfway mark and if they travelled any further looking for stories, they’d likely be stuck in New Orleans for the night, or few days. Because there wasn’t enough gas to bet back to Baton Rouge, where they slept in their rental car outside the police station.
When he’s not working Fred can usually be found at his off grid cabin up north where he says he spends his time thinning the forest in an effort to encourage more sugar maples to establish roots. If not at the cabin, he can be found making platinum prints, or volunteering at Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography, an artist run centre in Toronto.
Theresa Suzuki an experienced photo editor and visual journalist at The Globe and Mail, focusing on Report on Business and special projects.In her 14 years with The Globe, Theresa has been recognized in several industry awards. They include a National Newspaper Awards Citation of Merit for The Globe’s coverage of the 2016 Fort McMurray fire, and an NNA Special Recognition Citation for the Globe Photojournalism Summit that brought 40 photojournalists from around Canada together in 2024.
In 2019 she coordinated nine international conflict photographers to attend a Globe and Mail symposium about their work on the front lines. Before joining The Globe in 2011, Theresa worked at The National Post, CTV News, The Canadian Press and as an R.N. before falling in love with photography. In 2009 she graduated with a master's in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson).
Outside of work, Theresa is deeply committed to her family including her first grandchild and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Everly.
Darren Calabrese (b. 1981) is a documentary and editorial photographer based in Canada. Darren's work focuses squarely on human stories that often examines the fundamental relationship between community, tradition, and landscape.Â
Most recently, Darren moved back to the Maritimes to focus more attention on the environmental, economic, and population issues being faced by the people in Canada’s Atlantic provinces.
Darren's work has been recognized by World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, Communication Arts, Magenta Foundation, American Photography 34, News Photographers Association of Canada, etc.
Darren lives by the ocean in Halifax, NS with his wife Tammy and two daughters Harriet and June.
Chris Donovan is a documentary photographer, artist, and educator based in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a PhD candidate at Toronto Metropolitan University and works on long-term photographic projects which address issues of class and environmental justice primarily in the Canadian Maritimes and the American Midwest. He is the founding director of a new photography festival based in New Brunswick called Photo E(a)st.
Donovan is the author of The Cloud Factory published by GOST Books in 2025 and Stay Solid or Move West published by Boreal Collective Press in 2021. His work has been exhibited at galleries across Canada and beyond including The Image Centre in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada, and regularly appears in newspapers such as The New York Times and The Globe and Mail.
His work has been recognized by a World Press Photo Award, the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant, the Environmental Vision Award from POYi, and the Scotiabank New Generation Photography Award.