Light in the Land: The Nature of Canada

In her careers as scientist and physician, Dr. Roberta Bondar developed new techniques for colour and black and white photography using both fluorescence and electron microscopy. A neurologist, Dr. Bondar sub-specialized in neuro-ophthalmology – how we see and view the world around us. Influenced by the wide horizons that she viewed out of the spacecraft window, she has used medium and large format cameras to document natural landscapes from the ground, capturing a planet in evolution.

In 1997, Bondar was featured in the National Gallery of Canada exhibition Beauty of Another Order ~ Photography in Science. For three years, Dr. Bondar also photographed Canada’s National Parks producing the book Passionate Vision ~ Discovering Canada’s National Parks, as well as an exhibition of large photographs that has been displayed at venues such as the Canadian Museum of Nature and The Royal Ontario Museum.

She has continued to produce photo-based publications and exhibitions that have addressed Canadian landscapes including the Arctic, as well as the American Southwest and other major deserts of the world. Dr. Bondar’s photographic prints have been exhibited by The Loch Gallery, Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg, The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, and Hoopers Gallery, London, UK. Her works can be found in private, corporate and institutional collections in Canada, the USA, and England.