Chris Buck to speak at MagNet conference

The photographer has no obligation to the subject, except not to lie.

That's Chris Buck speaking, the bi-coastal (New York, Los Angeles) photographer who is to be this year's international speaker at MagNet, the magazine conference to be held June 13 to 15 in Toronto.

Buck, a Canadian expatriate who made good shooting celebrities, grew up in Etobicoke and took photography at Ryerson. (His online bio says, drily, that he took up photography when he found pushing a button easier than pencil drawing.) He moved to New York in 1991 "for practical career reasons".

He has shot the famous and the infamous for publications ranging from the New York Times Magazine and Wired to Premiere and Life and GQ. You can see a portfolio of his pictures on his website and read some of the articles that have been written about him and his work.

Here's a recent interview he did with Metro Morning.

For more information about MagNet, go to the Magazines Canada website.