Roger Smith

Roger Smith was born and raised in Fredericton, where he attended FHS and obtained a B.Sc. in Biology and M.Sc. in Plant Pathology from UNB. While working on his M.Sc., he started taking photographs for the UNB Biology Department, and he soon realized that photography was a more interesting pursuit than his research on potato blight. For over 35 years he was the scientific photographer for the UNB Biology Department, retiring in 2011.

Roger is a member of the SilverFish Photo Collective and Photo Fredericton camera club. He became a juried member of the NB Crafts Council in 2001. He has shown work in over 40 shows with SilverFish and had a 40-year retrospective show at the Fredericton Charlotte St. Arts Centre in 2007. He showed work in the group show Endless Summer at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, in 2023.

A background combining photography and plant pathology has prepared him to observe subtleties in nature that might otherwise escape notice. He delights in revealing an interesting side to subjects that most people would consider uninteresting - for example the stubborn beauty still present in dead and dying plants - subjects that reward a closer look.

Flowers on Black

Fish Rock

Raindrops World