Behind the Lens
Here are some of the faces behind the photos in the Toronto Star Photograph Archive.
Over the course of the 20th century, the Toronto Star won 18 National Newspaper Awards for exceptional photography. Some of those award-winning photographs are currently on display in Exposed.
Tom Wilson
Unknown Photographer
[1938]
One of the earliest Star photographers, Tom Wilson, also retouched photos and worked in the dark room.
Gerald Richardson
Unknown Photographer
May 6, 1939
Gerald Richardson was well known for his photographic coverage of royal tours and for his photographs of the royal family at Windsor, U.K. in 1939.
Ray Munro with Red Hill, 1945
Unknown
July 1945
Ray Munro, Toronto Daily Star photographer for a brief period of time, shoots Red Hill secured inside a barrel and ready for his journey through the rapids to Niagara Falls.
Ray Munro was a famous World War II pilot who was named to the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame and to the Order of Canada. He won two National Newspaper Awards during his career.
Doug Cronk
Unknown Photographer
1950s
Star photographer, Doug Cronk photographed the war in Korea. Cronk was killed in 1955 while on assignment for the Star covering Hurricane Janet in the Caribbean.
Harold Hilliard and Jack Marshall
Howard Anderson
November 1956
Star Weekly reporter Harold Hilliard and photographer Jack Marshall posing for Howard Anderson. Jack Marshall won a National Newspaper Award in 1955.
Frank Lennon
Unknown Photographer
1960s
Frank Lennon captured the award winning photograph of Paul Henderson scoring the winning goal of the 1972 Canada Russia Summit series.
Reg. Innell
Unknown
1969
Star photographer, Reg Innell won a National Newspaper Award in 1968 for his photo of a little girl looking for her father in a police graduation ceremony.
Erin Combs
Dick Loek
February 7, 1974
Photographer Erin Combs began working at the Toronto Star as a freelancer while she was a student at York University in the early 1970s.
At that time there were no women photographers working for any major Toronto newspaper.
Boris Spremo
Unknown
November 13, 1979
Renowned Toronto Star photographer, named to the Order of Canada and winner of over 300 awards for his photojournalism, Boris Spremo, photographs the burning tankers derailed in Mississauga in 1979.