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<div align="center"><font color="#CCCCCC" size="-3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#CCCCCC" size="-3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A
photographer for over 25 years, Bernard Brault captures both motion and
emotion in his pictures.<br>
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Specializing in sports, Bernard Brault begins his career in 1976 at Le
Courrier du Sud, a newspaper serving the south shore of the island of
Montreal. From 1981 to 1986, the news agencies UPC(United Press Canada)
and REUTERS are his main employers. Since 1984 he has been a staff photographer
for one of the largest French language dailies in America, La Presse.
He is also a regular contributor to magazines such as Golf Canada, Golf
International, Score Magazine, En Route, Les Canadiens, Motomag and others.
Regular clients include Vancouver 2010, the RCGA, the Grand Prix du Canada
and many others.<br>
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Since 1981 Bernard Brault has received many prizes and honorable mentions.(more
than 200 from 4 different continents). To mention just a few, he receives,
in France, first prize in the International Best Sports Photo contest
for 1985. In the United States the NPPA(National Press Photographers Association)
awards him third place in its Sports category in 1988. He has recieved
prizes from organizations in Spain and China. In 1996 he is named photgrapher
of the year by the Eastern and Western Canadian News Photographers Association(ECNPA
and WCNPA). Recently he won the grand prize in a contest organized by
L’Escale Nautique.<br>
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The recognition of his talent has led Bernard Brault to present conferences
to various organizations across Canada. He has also had major photo exhibits
at Montreal’s Complexe Desjardins, including one on the Lillehammer
Olympic Games and one on the 20 Formula One Grand Prix of Canada races
held in Montreal since 1978. An exhibit of photos from 20 years of professional
tennis in Montreal was also held at Jarry Park.<br>
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Bernard Brault photographed his first Olympic games in Lillehammer, Norway
in 1994. Since then, for his newspaper La Presse, he has covered the Olympic
Games of Atlanta(1996), Nagano(1998), Sydney(2000) and Salt Lake City(2002).
A collection of more than 125 of Braults’ Olympic Games photos are
published in the book «Les Québécois à Lillehammer,
published by Éditions de l’Homme.<br>
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Although specializing in sports photography Bernard Brault also excells
at coverage of news, arts, fashion and portraiture.</font></div>
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