Antony Czeto

Antony is a landscape photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in a logging town on Vancouver Island and spent most of his childhood outdoors, which is where the eye came from long before the camera did. He studied geography at UBC with a vague plan to work in forestry, then spent a winter photographing the Squamish estuary at dawn most mornings and quietly abandoned that plan. His first paid work was shooting trail guides for a small outdoor publisher, and he has been making a living from the coast ever since.
His work focuses on the wet, grey, in-between weather that most people wait out. He is drawn to fog on the North Shore mountains, rain on tidal flats, and the particular flat light of a Pacific Northwest November. He works slowly, often returning to the same location for years, and prefers a large-format film camera for his personal projects because the setup time forces him to actually look at what is in front of him. His images tend to be quiet rather than dramatic, and he is faintly suspicious of a photograph that announces itself too loudly.
His long-running series Slow Tide, made over eight years along the Sunshine Coast and the Broughton Archipelago, was shown at a Gastown gallery in 2023 and later published as a book. He teaches occasional weekend workshops on Bowen Island, where he keeps a small darkroom, and he is currently working on a project about second-growth forest in the Fraser Valley. He lives in East Vancouver with a badly behaved dog named Cedar and a truck he keeps meaning to replace.