About Cindy Harasymiw

Cindy Harasymiw is an award winning Canadian Photographer.  At the age of 15, she won her first award for an image taken on Harding Lake, Manitoba for outdoor wilderness photography.  She has photographed over 75 weddings, was published in the Weddings in Winnipeg magazine and was invited to be the first to photograph a wedding at the Manitoba Club. She has photographed more than 100 private events, as well as family gatherings, portraits, and commercial commissions for advertisement publications. In 2008, Cindy earned a position to showcase her work in the Toronto Film Festival.  She met and collaborated with an elite group of talented photographers while under the guidance of Magnum Photos’ Larry Towell.

 Cindy was born and raised in a community 400 km south of the Polar Bear Capital of the world, Churchill, Manitoba. Wilderness was a way of life for her, and she enjoyed many family expeditions where the waterways and tributaries of the Nelson and Burntwood River were the only means of transportation. Her love of photography coupled with her desire to preserve and protect the wilderness she called home led her to the University of Manitoba where she studied the discipline of Environment and Geographical Science.  On one of her expeditions at Nopiming Provincial Park, she encountered a Great Horned Owl.  As she was photographing the majestic bird of prey, it was at that moment she was inspired to take photography to a professional level.  Two years later, after countless hours of outdoor expeditions, studio work, portraits, commercial shooting, darkroom film processing and printing, Cindy obtained and holds a certificate of photography with honors from Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 

Cindy’s mission is simple - in her own words: 

• To capture the essence of each person I photograph.

• I capture and edit based on your personality, flair, style and above all, your wishes and desires.

• I have no one style as a true professional photographer/photojournalist should be.