Background
Sherman Hines was born on November 22, 1941 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sherman Hines was born on November 22, 1941 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sherman Hines first studied photography while in the Royal Canadian Air Force, where he received a diploma in photography, followed by four years of study at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
In addition to taking and publishing photographs, Sherman Hines has lectured extensively on photography throughout Canada and the United States, including fourteen years at the West Coast School of Photography in California.
Sherman Hines has an interest in architecture that has had him purchase and restore historic buildings in Nova Scotia, one of which has been converted into a museum: the Rossignol Cultural Centre in Liverpool, which houses the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography.
He is also an avid big game trophy hunter and he publishes photo books about trophy rooms.