Robert Minden is a sociologist, musician, and photographer based in Vancouver. He is known for his documentary photographs from the 1970s and 1980s of the dispossessed Doukhobor communities in the Kootenays and the displaced Japanese Canadian community in the fishing village of Steveston, both in B.C. Minden collaborated with poet Daphne Marlatt on the now classic work Steveston, an evocation of the Japanese Canadian experience at the mouth of the Fraser River.

Image: Robert Minden, Tsuneko and her children, Aaron and Gen, 1974, gelatin silver print, Collection of the artist.

For further reading, see:

Marlatt, Daphne (author), and Robert Minden (photographer). Steveston.

Minden, Robert. Separate from the World: Meetings with Doukhobor-Canadians in British Columbia / A l’écart du reste du monde : conversations avec des Doukhobors canadiens de la Colombie-Britannique. Vancouver: National Film Board of Canada, 1979.