Anne Launcelott “To travel is to discover everyone is wrong about other countries “, Aldous Huxley (1884-1963), British Author Anne is a travel/street photographer who lives on the east coast of Canada in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At the age of 15, Anne received her first camera, a Brownie Instamatic, as a birthday gift from her father and she has been taking photos ever since. For over 25 years, she worked mainly in black & white and did her own printing. When she went digital in 2010, colour photography became her main medium and focus of her artistic expression. Anne’s work is inspired by people and the themes of everyday life. She attended her first street photography workshop with the famed New York photographer Jay Maisel in 2010. He greatly influenced her use of colour, light, and gesture. On a photographic expedition to Myanmar in 2013 with the legendary photographer Steve McCurry, Anne knew she had found her niche: combining travel and street photography in countries where she feels she has stepped back in time. Anne has been in group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe. She has had many successful solo exhibitions in Halifax and had her first major solo international exhibition in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia in 2018. Annes’s photographs have been chosen for publication in books, magazines, and newspaper articles. Her first photography book, which she authored, was published in 2022 titled “We Are Nova Scotia - 100 portraits”. The publisher wrote: “Anne Launcelott is doubly gifted. She has a great eye and creates beautiful photographs. She also has the gift of getting her subjects to take off their masks and relax. They can sense that her interest in them is genuine - not fleeting or superficial, and they trust her.” Anne’s photographs are in several collections: Photography Museum of Lishui, China, Art Bank of Nova Scotia, Canada, and The Canadian Foundation for Chinese Heritage, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.