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Colin Bates

Coastal Imageworks was conceived in the year 2000 and is the artistic playground of Colin Bates. He has been taking and manipulating photos, audio, and video for most of his life.

To keep life exciting and varied, Colin wears many hats:

1) he has a Ph.D. in marine science through the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia. He regularly teaches seaweed biology and science filmmaking at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.

2) he is addicted to polar environments, and each year travels to Antarctica (austral summer), where he works as a polar expedition guide & lecturer. He has also worked in the Canadian High Arctic & Greenland.

3) he regularly teaches scientists how to communicate their findings using video.

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  4) he has been playing, writing, and recording music since the mid 1980's. Over the years, he has played with Ten Feet Tall, Little Manfred, the Dirmitts, Space Cadet, and Matthew Good. These days he has lots of fun playing drums in Bamfield's legendary party band, "the Broken Group".Colin has lived in the beautiful and remote village of Bamfield, British Columbia, Canada, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island for the past 8 years, but is soon relocating to Squamish, B.C.

His images have appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Queue Magazine, Canadian Musician Magazine, the permanent art collection of Canada's National Research Council, the Fredericton Airport, Princeton University Press, Lickle Publishing, the Mauritius Research Council, Blackwell Publishing, the Beatty Biodiversity Museum, Conde Naste Traveller, Canadian Museum of Nature, as well as in numerous young-educational and university-level textbooks. Colin has found artistic challenges and successes on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, is continuing his endeavor to capture spectacular images, promote biodiversity, and enjoy life to the fullest.
 

 

 
       
 
Anthony Howland

Anthony Howland is the eastern half of Coastal Imageworks.  He joined the Coastal team in 2002.  Anthony contributes work from New Brunswick and the east, which he gathers on his travels.  You can find him every Saturday morning at the W.W. Boyce Farmers Market in Fredericton.  Watch the website for other dates as he attends seasonal events around the Maritimes.

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