Harold is a freelance filmmaker, photographer and writer who has lived in the Bancroft area since moving here from Toronto in 2002. He‘s married to his partner of 51 years,Dianne Eastman, who is a mixed media artist and designer.
Harold grew up in western Canada but moved to Ontario in 1979 to take a job as communications director for an international development agency. The position enabled him totravel widely, shooting film and later video in Bolivia, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Venezuela, and several European countries.
When he became a freelancer, Harold developed a specialty in writing and filmmaking on the subject of advanced scientific research, documenting multi-million-dollar projects atuniversities and other institutions across Ontario and the Canadian prairies.
Harold continues to shoot both still and moving images. He has created a number of music videos for local artists and is active in documenting the work a local anti-poverty group,the North Hastings Community Trust. In still photography, he focuses on people and on situations or scenes that strike him as whimsical.

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