Colin Chase grew up in Port Williams, Nova Scotia. Largely self-taught, he began snapping pictures with his trusty Kodak Instamatic while in elementary school. He soon graduated to 35mm and decided that he wanted to be a photographer when he grew up. His grade 9 English teacher, Harold MacLeod, taught him an appreciation of black and white photography and photo printing (and of really bad jokes). After 33 years as an educator, mostly in the Hants West area, he finally retired to be able to devote more time to photographing the beautiful scenery here in the Annapolis Valley.
Colin has participated in photography seminars and workshops presented by Freeman Patterson, André Gallant and Sherman Hines.
He is a founding member of Tides Art Gallery in Kentville, which opened in November 2019.
He is also a member of ViewPoint Gallery in Bedford, NS, the only cooperative gallery in Atlantic Canada solely devoted to photography.
His work hangs in other galleries throughout the province and is collections across the country.
Colin resides in Kentville, NS.
I have the great privilege to live in the eastern Annapolis Valley—an amazing part of Nova Scotia. I find great beauty and peace in the rows of newly planted fields as the sun comes up in the morning and in the crash of the waves on the Fundy shore. Through my photographs, I work to capture this beauty in both a true and an artistic way and want to celebrate what I love about my home in the forms and textures of the land, the power of the sea, and the spirit of the people. I document the here and now and pay homage to the past that I knew growing up.
