PHOTO ESSAY

Northern Exposures

Lovers of Canadian photography get Carte Blanche

By Alec Scott

April 20, 2006

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Margaret Atwood. Photograph by Deborah Samuel.

After training in Canada and Ireland, Vancouver native Deborah Samuel has made an international name for herself shooting Hollywood celebrities. “After two years, I couldn’t take it anymore,” Samuel says. “You were treated less as a professional and more like a psychological babysitter, catering to the star’s whims.” Was it the same taking photos of one of Canada’s best-known novelists for Maclean’s? “No, a hundred times no. [Margaret Atwood] knows who she is, and there’s this sense of accomplishment that just oozes from her.”