# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lorraine-monk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:06:42.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lorraine-monk"
name: "Lorraine Monk"
slug: "lorraine-monk"
description: "Lorraine Althea Constance Monk D.Litt was a Canadian curator, author and executive producer with the National Film Board of Canada who led the production of multiple photography projects chronicling Canadian culture from the 1960s onward. She worked to establish the Canadian Museum of Photography in Toronto, which spawned multiple satellite museums across the country. Over 160,000 of the photographs that she commissioned to detail contemporary Canada are housed at the National Gallery of Canada. She also led the publication of photography books including Canada: A Year of the Land, Call Them Canadians, Canada with Love, Between Friends, and Photographs that Changed the World."
tagline: "Canadian photographer (1922-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lorraine_Monk_and_Gerald_Ford_3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1922-05-26"
deathDate: "2020-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.402412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lorrainemonk.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "لوراين مونك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Monkov%C3%A1"
    title: "Lorraine Monková"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Monk"
    title: "Lorraine Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Monk"
    title: "Lorraine Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Monk"
    title: "Lorraine Monk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6681660"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump