Originally trained in documentary - style photography while serving as
a military press photographer, he later went on to receive a BFA in Photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCAD University, Toronto).
Sudanese cameraman Sami al - Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al - Jazeera, has been held without trial since June 2002 at the US
military base at Guantanamo, and Associated
Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been held by US authorities in Iraq since April this year.»