Gregory Colbert

Toronto, 1960

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Gregory Colbert is a Canadian filmmaker and photographer known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His project "Ashes and Snow" has been described as "extraordinary" by the Economist, and "distinctive . . . monumental in every sense" by the Wall Street Journal. Stern magazine described the photographs as "fascinating," and Vanity Fair named Gregory Colbert in its "Best of the Best."