Bio: Elaine Brière
Elaine Brière lives in Vancouver, BC. Her photographs have appeared in Unesco Courier, Folket I Bild, Wereldwijd Avenue, THIS Magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly , Survival International, Zed Magazine and the Family of Women. She was the last photographer to visit East Timor before the Indonesian invasion of l975 and became involved in the Timorese independence movement. Her book Testimony: Photographs of East Timor, was published by Between the Lines, Toronto, in 2004. Her next exhibition will be at the Chinese Cultural Center in Vancouver in June, 2006.
She is also a filmmaker. Bitter Paradise: The sell-out of East Timor, won Best Political documentary at HOT DOCS! In 1997. Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen aired on Knowledge Network and SCN in 2005.
Interviews/reviews:
- ABC Australia, Margaret Thorsby Hour, May 2005
- ABC Australia, Life Matters, May 2005
- CBC Almanac, Mark Forsyth, December, 2004
- CBC Arts programming, French network, December, 2004
- The Vancouver Courier, Geoff Olson, November 21, 2004
- The National Post, Jeet Heer, June 17, 2004
- Vancouver Sun, Stephen Hume, Nov.30, l997
- Globe and Mail, John Haslett Cuff, June 11, l997
- Edmonton Journal, Roger Levesque, Sept 26, l997
- Calgary Herald, Robert Bragg, Sept 28, l997
- Covert Action Quarterly, l997
Grants:
- University College of the Fraser Valley, 2003
- Canadian Catholic Development and Peace, 2001
- Canada Council, l993
- Borja da Costa Foundation, Portugal, l990
- East Timor-Japan Coalition, l989
- Canada Council Travel Grant, l987
- Swedish Traveling Exhibitions, l987
- Koerner and Bronfman Foundation, l984
- Canada Council Explorations, l982
Selected exhibitions:
- The Roundhouse, May, 2005
- Tacoma History Museum, 200l
- Vancouver Museum 2000 (group)
- St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, l998
- Ceperly House, Burnaby, BC,199l
- Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, l992
- Centre for Contemporary Art, Australia,l990
- Asian Festival, Fukuoaka, Japan, l989
- Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, l987
Television Broadcast :
- 2005 Knowledge Network
- 2005 Saskatchewan Communications Network
- 2002 Free Speech TV Colorado
- l998 "Midnight Theater", PBS, U.S.A.
- l998 CBC Radio Quebec, Montreal
- l998 "Crosscurrents", DU Public Television, Philadelphia
- l997 New Zealand National Public Television
- l998 Swedish National Public Television (STV)
- l998 "Hot Topics" Women's Television Channel (WTN)
- l997 "Straight from the Heart" T.V. Ontario
- l997 Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN)
- l997 T.V. Northern Canada, Yellowknife, N.W.T.
Books:
- 2005, Carte Blanche Photography 1 , Magenta Publishers
- 2004, Citizenship and Globalization, The Carold Institute for UNESCO
- l998, East Timor: Island in Turmoil, Lerner Pub. U.S.A.
- l998, East Timor, Inter. Working Group on Indigenous Affairs,Denmark
- l997, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent, ECW Press
- l996, Timor: A People Betrayed, ABC Books, Australia
- l996, The Other Mexico, Black Rose Books, Montreal
- l996, East Timor and Canadian Foreign Policy, Black Rose Books, Montreal
- l995, East Timor: Genocide in Paradise, Odonian Press
- l994, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Odonian Press
- l987, Southeast Asian Tribal Groups,Cultural Survival, U.S.A.
- l988, Lebenslieder Todesklagen, Klemens Ludwig, Germany
- l985, Det Grymmma Spelet, Bjorn Larsson, Sweden
- l979, Family of Women, Ridge Press, New York