BaxterCannon is a photo gallery in Fernwood Square (Victoria, BC) with the mission to help support local nonprofits and artists through photography, gallery events, and visual storytelling.

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The BaxterCannon Gallery is the collaborative space of photographers Laurie Rae Baxter and Charles Cannon.  Both street photographers, Baxter and Cannon share an abiding preoccupation with the close connection between art and life,  and the inimitable mark photography makes on both.

Photographs permeate all aspects of our lives.  They help inform us, and the great ones have a power to help reform us.  A photograph’s reach can magnify well above and beyond the recording of events, it can afford us something more complex and elusive, and it can deepen our understanding of the worlds we inhabit.

With all its multiplicity and ubiquity, photography sits perfectly as a conduit for the philanthropic work of Baxter and Cannon.  Image making and compassion converge in their compelling imagery and award-winning publications. 

Over the past decade their combined photographic storytelling has enhanced and critically extended the capacity of non-profits and NGOs in a number of countries, helping to expand their reach and increase the visibility of their efforts.

Our photographic philanthropy enables us to live and enjoy our legacies now. It is an expression of thanks and hope that we can help create change on the issues that matter to us. Honing our photographic abilities, discovering our philanthropic purpose and bringing the resources to enact that purpose is the mission of the BaxterCannon Gallery.
— Laurie Baxter