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Casimir Bart had every reason to believe that life was an oyster when armed with a Master of Art Degree in Geography, he went on to hone his professional skills in Italy and Sweden. Alas, the communist authorities in his native Poland thought otherwise and work in the field of cartography coupled with Western contacts were enough to brand him a western spy. Soon, he found himself blacklisted, denied employment and travel abroad. But he had a weapon to fight back, his camera.
Bart's photographic work was first exhibited at the World Press Photo 1971 in Amsterdam, and led to a collaboration with Elliot Elisofon of Time-Life.
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When in 1973, Bart found himself in France, he was hired by l'Agence Francaise d'Illustration Photographique in Paris as photo-reporter.
A move to Canada in the mid seventies was prompted by a demand within the advertising sector for a strong visual language. It was in Montreal, where Casimir Bart established Artagon Photographics, his photography studio. But politics interfered once again. In 1979, at the height of the business exodus from Quebec, he decided to move his studio to Toronto.
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