Raginsky, Nina
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Born in Montreal, Quebec, Nina Raginsky received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in 1962. While at Rutgers she studied painting with Roy Lichtenstein, sculpture with George Segal and Art History with Allan Kaprow.
From 1963 to 1981, she was a freelance photographer with the National Film Board of Canada. After spending a year in Mexico, she returned to Canada in 1968 and began a project recording remote life in the Yukon and First Nations communities in British Columbia. The following year, she became an assistance curator of education at the Vancouver Art Gallery until 1972. She then began a series of photos documenting the city and people of Vancouver, Victoria, and British Columbia. Between 1972 and 1981, Raginsky was an instructor at the Emily Carr College of Art, formerly Vancouver School of Art.
She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1985. She is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
[Source: Legacy Galleries and Wikipedia entry: Nina Raginsky]
Raginsky makes her home on Salt Spring Island and was recognized nationally in 2015 for her contributions to photographic art by having a postage stamp made of one of her best known Vancouver photos: Shoeshine Stand. [Source: Vancouver As It Was: Nina Raginsky's Lip Grant Images