Nina Raginsky

Nina Raginsky CM OC, (born April 14, 1941) is a Canadian photographer who received the honour of the Order of Canada in 1984.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1962.

While at Rutgers she studied painting with Roy Lichtenstein, sculpture with George Segal and Art History with Allan Kaprow.

After spending a year in Mexico, she returned to Canada in 1968 and began a project recording remote life in the Yukon and First Nations communities in British Columbia.

[7] Nina Raginsky has cited German photographer, August Sander as inspiration for her portraits in particular his work, Men Without Masks.