Jean Baptise's dike from rising floodwaters in 1997. Members of Calgary's 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry battle 80 km/hour winds to push logs and sandbags to create a breakwater to help protect the town of St. A gang member wanted by police shows an officer he is not armed - revealing a huge gang tattoo - before being taken into custody in 1997. A family attends an open house at a nudist camp near Libau, Man., in 1997. A riot the weekend before at Headingley Correctional Centre forced the guards to file unsafe labour complaints, giving them the legal right to not work until an investigation was completed. Inmates at the Remand Center in downtown Winnipeg bang on windows, as correction officers walked off the job in 1996.
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Mike Aporius is Director of Photography/Multimedia at the Free PressĪ Save the Jets Rally in 1995 at The Forks attracted thousands of NHL hockey fans. So while he is gone, his work remains, thanks to that passion to tell our stories. Joe could do it all, and he did it all with equal passion. One of Joe's many photographs featuring squirrels in mid-flight. I got the piercing glare, and part smirk, that only those that knew Joe could understand. I once called these projects "quirky," which didn’t sit well with him. Or his skill - some might say obsession - with photographing squirrels in mid-flight. If he had gone, we would have missed his lighter side, which included a 30-day challenge for him to photograph a goose every day. The Canadian Press tried to pull him over, but he wouldn’t budge. Joe believed a photographer didn’t need to leave Winnipeg and join a big wire service to be recognized as an accomplished photojournalist. His list of accolades runs long and includes awards from the News Photographers Association of Canada, Canadian Association of Journalists and the National Newspaper Awards.
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The series is still being shown in schools today. Thousands of Manitoba residents, an hour’s flight from Winnipeg, have no running water in their homes, putting them at increased risk for a host of health problems usually associated with the world’s poorest countries. His work in the No Running Water series, which he pitched, saw him take multiple trips to six northern First Nations over seven months in 2010 to document Manitobans struggling with poor water and sewage services.Ī child runs past a makeshift toilet in elder Moyer Taylor's porch on Garden Hill, First Nation in July 2010. He covered Grey Cups and both the loss and return of the NHL Jets. He was at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics, embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan in 2008 and teamed with writers for stories from every corner of the province. While looking through tens of thousands of his images shot for the Free Press over the last few days, it was clear his impact on the readers is undeniable. I would not be where I am today without Joe. He was in my corner as I applied for the editor position after our boss, Jon Thordarson, died of cancer in 2010. He was instrumental in getting my foot in the door with the Free Press after journalism school and helped me gain freelance work and, later, a part-time position. He was assertive when he needed to be and sensitive when the story called for an empathetic touch. We got along instantly and I was lucky to witness Joe in action. I was fresh out of art school and wide-eyed to share stories from my own backyard.
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He was also my mentor, taking a keen young photographer on numerous weekend ridealongs and showing me the ropes. He was a master at telling a story his telling was unique. In a series of tweets last week, Free Press writer Melissa Martin reflected on her many assignments with Joe and how his photos would tell their own story alongside whatever her words could. He got close to it, evident by the many hands-in-lens, get-out-of-my-face news photos he captured over the years.ĭaren Jorgenson, then owner and pharmasist of Selkirk Arbor Drugs, did not want to get his picture taken by Joe in 1998.īut he could also step back and let the beauty of a story unfold in front of him. Joe started at the paper in 1994 after working his way up through the local community papers and the Winnipeg Sun. In reflection after reflection about Joe since his sudden death last week I was reminded of the impact he’s had on so many people, including the readers of the Free Press. Joe Bryksa was a photojournalist in the truest sense.
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