Collection: Elaine Brière

Elaine Brière is an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker. Raised in Nanaimo, BC, Brière rediscovered photography in the 1960s while a student at the University of British Columbia. She holds a Master's in Liberal Studies. Her first documentary film, Bitter Paradise the Sellout of East Timor, was released in 1996. The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen was released in 2004; this is a documentary about the privatization of Canada's merchant sea fleet after World War II and the dismantling of the Canadian Merchant Seamen's Union. Brière continues her work as a writer, photographer and filmmaker.

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