Photojournalism and Travel Photography with Phil Norton

Phil Norton is an American Canadian. He worked in the photography department of the Montreal Gazette during the transition from film to digital. While shooting assignments throughout the city and the Southwest Quebec region and writing travel articles, he was in charge of the photo archives dating back to 1900. He sold the stock photography to publishers and film documentary producers around the world. For the Year 2000 he helped select images for a book about The Gazette’s photography during that century.

As a teenager in the 1970s he sold photos to magazines with mostly nature photography. It was at Penn State University, when he needed access to a darkroom, that he tried out for the Daily Collegian newspaper which launched him into photojournalism and writing as a career. Norton served as editor of a bilingual weekly newspaper in Quebec and then started a journalism program in the local high…