Dr Martha Langford FRSC is a distinguished professor emerita of Concordia University in Montreal. She is the former Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. In prior lives, she was the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada, and before that, Executive Producer of the Still Photography Division of the National Film Board of Canada. 

She has published numerous monographs, edited collections, catalogues, book chapters, and articles on photography history and theory, and organized photographic exhibitions for museums and festivals in Canada, the UK, and Europe. The first of three volumes, A History of Photography in Canada: Anticipation to Participation, 1839-1918, has just appeared from McGill-Queen’s University Press. In process are Volume 2: A Medium Unleashed, 1919-1969 and Volume 3: Momentous Indecision, 1970-2010. 

Dr Langford will be giving a lecture on her work titled "Ten Surprising Things About the History of Photography in Canada," which will happen at 5:00 pm on Thursday, November 13 in the Coach House. She will also be in residence at Green College for a week during this time. 

Header photograph: Detail from Ernest Brown, William Hansom Boorne, Ernest G. May, and Charles W. Mathers, Mission, BC, 1892. Photographic negative. Provincial Archives of Alberta, PR0043.B993.