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 been granted a Fellowship in the American Society of Photographers and been named Canadian Photographer of the Year. He also has two gold medals of excellence in photography from The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia and the National Association for Photographic Art. In May 1998, Saint Mary's University in Halifax granted Hines an Honorary Doctor of Letters.
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.
In 2014 they were in the Ukraine on an assignment and landing in Kiev about the same time that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down a few hundred kilometers away.
Andrew Hines is a music video maker. His work on "One Man Can Change the World" with American rapper Big Sean won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Social Message in 2015.
