Editor Norm Rosen by Robert Lansdale
Our March speaker, Norm Rosen, spoke on the status of photographic magazine publishing today in Canada. Norm is the current editor of Photo News. He spoke with great enthusiasm about the business of publishing photography magazines in Canada. Norm graduated from McGill University in Montreal. He lives here in Toronto and has over 40 years of experience as a teacher, photographer, and editor.
Norm and several of the attending PHSC members brought along many hard copy examples of magazines covering the mid 1800s up. He asked that the audience take care in handling the samples as many are rare and in delicate condition. Norm began his talk by providing the assembled audience with handouts of his talk and the most recent issue of Photo News magazine (I read it the day before with the Globe and Mail over my breakfast).
He began his presentation by acknowledging the people who mentored him over the years including such early PHSC members as the late John Barras Walker, Gunther Ott, and Ms Lorraine Monk. And as a Montrealer, he slipped in a few French sentences along the way, including a poem (Mon pays ce n’est pas un pays c’est l’hiver) usually sung by its writer Gilles Vigneault. During his talk, he chose his words to confirm his strong identity as a Canadian. For the first few minutes Norm read with emphasis from a carefully scripted paper, then he was off to a Power Point file and set the paper aside. Continue reading
