GREG LOCKE has more than twenty-five years experience as a
professional photographer, journalist, editor and media producer.
His work has appeared in publications and news agencies such as
Macleans, Equinox, Canadian Geographic, Reuters, The Globe & Mail,
Forbes, Time, Businessweek, Readers Digest, Toronto Star,
Canadian Busness, Utne Reader, Men's Health and der Spiegel as
well as his commercial work for corporate clients including Mobil Oil, Chevron,
Texas Instuments, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Bar Association, Petro Canada,
Medecins sans Frontieres, Canadian International Development Agency, Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro, Parks Canada, Kodak Europe, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and McClelland & Stewart, Canada.
His assignments have taken him from the ice floes and offshore oil fields of the North Atlantic to the civil wars of The Balkans and the conflicts in Central Africa. Locke is equally comfortable working in the corporate boardroom as he is remote field locations. He even once produced and hosted a live TV current affairs phone in show with no tape delay!

He is a regular contributor to the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Business and a contributing editor to NLPress.ca, a Newfoundland and Labrador online news agency.     
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Three books of his work have been published.

NEWFOUNDLAND .... journey into a lost nation
by Greg Locke and Michael Crummey from McClelland and Stewart

TOUCHED BY FIRE: doctors without borders in a third world crises from McClelland and Steward. Co-produced with Elliott Leyton, this book investigates the world of international relief agencies through the eyes of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
during the Rwandan genocide and refugee crisis.

HIBERNIA: Promise of Rock and Sea, from Break Water Books and is the culmination of a 4 year documentary about the building of the Hibernia oil rig and the offshore oil industry in Newfoundland.

He is a founding member and director of PictureDesk International. A international news photo agency based in the USAwith members and clients around the world.

In 2003 he became the editor of a startup newspaper, The Sunday Independent in St. John's.

Greg was awarded the2004 CAJ/CIDA Fellowship for journalism in the area of foreign aid and international development by the Canadian Association of Journalists and the Canadian International Development Agency. He used the award to travel to Africa and coverer a number of business, health and development stories in Kenya, Sudan and Uganda.

In 2005 Greg produced CanadianJournalist.CA. A high traffic resource website and discussion forum serving the Canadian journalism community which became a part of The Canadian Journalism Project and the J-Source website in 2007 where is continues to be a contributing editor for the visual journalism section.

From 2004 to 2007 Locke was a contributing and online editor to CURRENT, Newfoundland's alternative newspaper, writing feature stories, producing the majority of its photography and editing the papers website. His work ranged from reporting on the war in northern Uganda to the Newfoundland expat community in Fort McMurray, Alberta to the homeless of dowtown St. John's, Newfoundland.

In 2007 he worked as a reporter for the Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, writing about health and science issues and then travelled across Canada by car doing assignments for Canadian Business and Canadian Geographic magazines.

He is a member and moderator of Editorial Photographers Canada.

REVIEWS:

"For starters, the paper looks great. It has a crisp, clean layout and nice use of type. The photography is first-rate and no wonder - much of it is supplied by seasoned, award-winning photojournalist Greg Locke." ...Geoff Meeker, The Express. (on the North East Avalon Times)

"...these images are of a Newfoundland rarely seen by anyone who is not a Newfoundlander." "This is the real Newfoundland."... Wayne Grady, Canadian Geographic. (on Journey into a Lost Nation)

There's a photograph by Newfoundland's Greg Locke that shows two fishermen in a skiff on the water. An iceberg looms over them, and they are hauling a net with a white chunk of the berg toward their boat. The water is eerily calm, the photograph quiet. The men are in the middle of a mythic nowhere, on the rim of the exotic Artic circle, hauling a little piece of the sublime from the depths. There's a touch of magic realism about the picture -- the ice is ancient and ephemeral. In part, the photograph comments on the iconic, post-card image of the weathered, hard-working Newfoundlander. But this is evidently a post-moratorium picture. These men aren't catching cod. They're fishing ice, probably for a bottled water or vodka plant. It reminds me of a passage in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, wherein a South American man sees a block of ice for the first time at a gypsy fair and is awed by its glacial breath and diamond-bright beauty. Both Marquez and Locke are describing the steamroller of technology and the disjunctive, surreal, dreamlike images that are left in its path. Locke's image will appear in a book of his photographs called Newfoundland: ...journey into a lost nation.
                                                                                                       ... Lisa Moore, The Globe & Mail

"...unforgettably haunting photographs." ... The Globe & Mail, Toronto, Canada. (on Touched By Fire)

CBC TV Hot Type ...produced by Alice Hopman