Liam Sharp is an award-winning photographer who specializes in dramatic painting-like portraits. His mastery of crafting light and ability to capture the humanity of the subjects has taken him around the world to shoot for popular magazines, businesses, non-profits and more.
He worked on a series of portraits in Liberia in the aftermath of the Ebola crisis, photographed the slums of Old Havana, depicted residents on the border of North and South Korea and worked in partnership with Cindy Blackstock, Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, to create portraits on First Nations reserves all across Canada.
Liam’s work is seen regularly in Wired UK Magazine, The London Times, Observer Magazine, Canada’s Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic Magazine, Report on Business Magazine.
He’s been honoured with many international awards and nominations; his work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Applied Arts, Photo District News, Graphis Photo Annual, The National Portrait Gallery of London, the Canadian National Magazine Awards, British Journal of Photography Portrait of Humanity. He was recently featured in a profile by the Society of Publication Designers. He’s had solo shows at the Elevator Gallery and in the CONTACT Festival of Toronto. He’s participated in group shows at The Plaxall Gallery of New York, The AHA Gallery of Brooklyn.
His work has been exhibited in the Museum in The Hague and The Museum of Jewish Montreal. His portrait series chronicling the Northern Ontario indigenous reserve of Attawapiskat is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg.
Liam’s work was exhibited for Iraqi Jewish Voices, at the Museum of Jewish Montreal in 2019 and Sephardi Voices – The Forgotten Exodus at the Miles Nadal Centre in Toronto, in 2019. We are in the planning stages of presenting The Forgotten Exodus – A Canadian Refuge, an exhibition at Library and Archives Canada in 2022.
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