Rosamond Norbury has photographed Canadian legends, from k.d. lang to Jack Shadbolt, as well as a stadium’s worth of rodeo cowboys, Harley drivers, the stars of the hit TV series Kink, and drag queen legends of Vancouver.

If you’re born in the Himalayas and schooled in Paris, France, how could you not grow up to be a photographer of cowboys and kink?

Apart from being one of the hottest projects to come out of Vancouver, Norbury’s first book, Behind the Chutes: The Mystique of the Rodeo Cowboy, was nominated for the ALA/YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. She’s won the Canadian Country Music Award for Patricia Conroy’s Bad Day for Trains, Vancouver’s Vancouver first prize for colour photography, and had work in such reputable magazines as Saturday Night and MacLeans.

In thirty years of printmaking, Rosamond has perfected her technique of using two separate printing plates to give a duotone effect to her prints. Producing photo intaglio prints in this way allows her to control the placement of ink and to manipulate the plates by embellishing marks already present or by adding her own. Intaglio images are richer than the usual photographic methods, producing an original print each time.

Rosamond Norbury shoots production stills for documentary and reality shows for the National Film Board of Canada, Paperny Films, Weird Homes, including Crash Test Mummy and Better than Chocolate.

A self-styled flâneur, Rosamond is at home with her feet in her boots and a camera in hand. She has documented life on the streets of Cuba, France, Portugal and her home-base of Vancouver. Step inside the galleries and see what the wanderer brings home.