Fred Herzog was born in 1930 in Germany and immigrated to Canada in 1952, spending time in Toronto and Montreal before arriving in Vancouver in 1953. He worked as a medical photographer at St. Paul’s Hospital while taking photographs in his spare time. In the 1960s and 1970s, Herzog taught in the fine arts departments at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. His photographs are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada. Fred Herzog has participated in exhibitions across the country—at the National Gallery of Canada, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC Fine Arts Gallery (now the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery)—and around the world, from the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York to the c/o Berlin in Germany.