Boris Spremo
{{Short description|Canadian photojournalist}}
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| caption = Spremo at BMO Field in 2011
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|10|20}}
| birth_place = Sušak, Yugoslavia{{Cref2|a}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|8|21|1935|10|20}}
| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| nationality = Canadian
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| occupation = Photojournalist
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Boris Spremo, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Спремо; October 20, 1935 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian photojournalist. He was the first photojournalist to receive the Order of Canada.[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/boris-spremo "Boris Spremo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927171256/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/boris-spremo |date=2013-09-27 }}. The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 29, 2009.
Career
After graduating from the Belgrade Cinematographic Institute, he moved to Canada in 1957 via Paris.{{cite web|url=http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2017/08/22/photographer-boris-spremo-remembered-for-charm-skill-chutzpah.html|title=Photographer Boris Spremo remembered for charm, skill, chutzpah|website=Metronews.com|accessdate=22 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823022756/http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2017/08/22/photographer-boris-spremo-remembered-for-charm-skill-chutzpah.html|archive-date=23 August 2017|url-status=dead}} He found work with The Globe and Mail from 1962 to 1966, and finished his career with the Toronto Star.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/legendary-photojournalist-told-stories-with-his-lens/article36054603/ "Photojournalist Boris Spremo told stories with his lens"]. The Globe and Mail, August 22, 2017. The Toronto Star later called him "a legend in the business".[https://www.thestar.com/GTA/Fixer/article/604646 Trash bags at Queen station a visual spoiler for lens legend]. Toronto Star. March 19, 2009. Some of his photographs appeared in both Canadian and American magazines. He was known for his collages depicting life in Toronto.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m4wFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iTcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5268,463207&dq=boris+spremo&hl=en Toronto Photographed by Boris Spremo]. The Times. July 1, 1967.
Awards
Spremo won many regional and international awards for his work,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=eCwyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lqUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1389,1839697&dq=boris+spremo&hl=en Computers now able to help with your photographic work]. Montreal Gazette. March 24, 1984. including a World Press Photo award, the first for a Canadian. He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1997, by Governor General Roméo LeBlanc at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. He was the first photojournalist to receive the award.
Death
Spremo died on August 21, 2017, in Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital at age 81, from complications of myeloma.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927011208/http://www.borisspremo.com/ Official site]
- [https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/search.jsp?Erp=25&N=4294550851&Ns=p_pub_date_sort&Nso=0&view=grid Toronto Star photographs on Digital Archive] (Toronto Public Library)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20230528063150/https://www.urbanbookcircle.com/boris-spremo.html Boris Spremo biography]
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Category:Canadian photojournalists
Category:Canadian people of Serbian descent
Category:Members of the Order of Canada
Category:Yugoslav emigrants to Canada
Category:Deaths from multiple myeloma in Canada
Category:Burials at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
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