Shows & Press

20th ANNIVERSARY PHOTOGRAPHIC RETROSPECTIVE March 2022

You can find exhibition highlights here.

The entire retrospective of over 4300 images is also on the Digital Collections page where you can use the Featured Galleries link to see another highlighted 200 images, or you can search by artist name.

Eric Hayes Editorial Photojournalism: The 1980's Economic Recession in Atlantic Canada

While photographer Eric Hayes worked in Canada’s East Coast, completing editorial freelance assignments for various Atlantic publications, he also took on the role of documenting the very human effects of individuals and families impacted by Canada’s mid 1980’s economic recession.

March 1, 2022
Editorial Photojournalism Maclean’s Covers 1983 & 1984

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Diana, Princess of Wales: Through the lens of Eric Hayes

The Canadian Heritage Photography Foundation is excited to present a sneak peek of the recent donation from renowned photographer and photojournalist Eric Hayes. His beautiful images show Prince Charles and Lady Diana from their trip to Atlantic Canada in the summer of 1983.

February 9, 2002
Charles & Diana, the Prince & Princess of Wales 1983

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Hendrix prints for sale on 1XRUN

Fifty-three years ago, Jimi Hendrix gave his last concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

A Detroit-based seller of art, 1XRUN (One Time Run), is offering for sale 2 of the photos that I shot that evening in 1969 plus one of Jimi at his Brook Street flat. The launch day for the Jimi Hendrix pieces was to coincide with the date of that concert on February 24.

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CHPF Newsletter

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CHPF is proud to receive a collection of approximately 25,000 images from rock and roll and fine art photographer Eric Hayes. Eric was a founding member of the Foundation in 2001. Today, Eric is working on digitizing his expansive collection. His donation to CHPF includes his magazine work from the 1980’s and 90’s.

Eric Hayes

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As a youth, Canadian photographer captured historical images of folk and rock legends.

   by Mike Sadava
   Penguin Eggs Winter/Spring 2020-21
   Reprinted with permission

Eric Hayes – A Photographer’s Journey through Time 1963-69

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Eric Hayes has been a photographer—or more accurately a photojournalist—most of his life.

   by Mike Stax
   Ugly Things #55 Winter 2020
   Reprinted with permission
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Reelin' in the Years salute to Eric Hayes

Reelin' in the Years Photo Archive salutes the work of Eric Hayes

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The RITY Photo Archive focuses exclusively on images of music artists, including over 200,000 photos from the 1930s to today, captured by legendary photographers from across the globe.

Legends of Rock and Roll

Long distraught over the loss of most of my black & white negatives from 1968-69, I decided to celebrate the photographs I had managed to save with an exhibition at Halifax, Nova Scotia's ViewPoint Gallery in March 2003. It was huge success, perhaps the best attended show ViewPoint has ever had, and it was followed by an invitation to bring the exhibition to two other Nova Scotia galleries: the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography in Liverpool and the Desbrisay Museum in Bridgewater.

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In Their Own Skin

In March 2004, ViewPoint Gallery was the venue for my 2nd exhibition of photography, In Their Own Skin. With large black & white canvas prints of naked vacationers on a sailing trip in the Caribbean, I was able to introduce viewers to the world of nude recreation. In October 2002, during a 2-week nude cruise aboard the 197-foot Windjammer tall ship, S/V Yankee Clipper, some 17 couples and 4 women – about a third of the passengers –had allowed me to take their portraits while we sailed from Grenada to St. Vincent. I was nude, too. Daily visits to small islands with idyllic, deserted beaches provided the perfect backdrop for this return to the Garden of Eden. These photographs show people whose bodies are far from the glossy magazine ideal, yet they have embraced body acceptance. As we look at them looking at us, we feel their love of life and recognize our common humanity.

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Legends of Rock & Roll at ViewPoint Gallery

In what turned out to be the best-attended show ever at Halifax’s ViewPoint Gallery, March 2003 saw over 850 curious visitors stop by for a look. So many came to the Artist Talk that the Marquee Club across the street was booked to accommodate them. The popularity attracted the attention of a local rock radio station which was urging listeners to be sure to drop in. Comedian Mike Smith, who plays Bubbles in the popular Trailer Park Boys TV show is a huge rock fan, and came by for a look. Here is a photo of him with Eric at the show.

Following on the success of the ViewPoint show, Eric was invited to bring the show to the Sherman Hines Gallery in Liverpool, NS, and then to the Desbrisay Museum in Bridgewater, NS. You may be interested to know that Liverpool, Nova Scotia, sits on the banks of the Mersey River, just as it does in England, an appropriate venue for the show seeing as how it featured 2 of the Beatles.

ViewPoint Gallery Website