Kennedy Bradshaw (~1900 - 1981)
	
Kennedy Bradshaw was born in Cornwall, England. He became a journeyman mechanic at Rolls Royce at age thirteen and then joined his uncle’s engineering firm in Manchester. He arrived in Canada in 1939 when he jumped ship in Halifax, but he then returned to England. He was working for Fairley Aviation in England during the Second World War, testing battle aircraft. His wife and two children were killed during a blitz.((Genesee Keevil, “A slice of Yukon life for sale.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 17 November 2010.))
	
Bradshaw returned to Canada legally and worked at Falconbridge mine in Sudbury, Ontario.((Genesee Keevil, “A slice of Yukon life for sale.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 17 November 2010.)) He lived near Dawson and then moved to Elsa.((Karen Smith, "Personal photos depict 1950s-60s Yukon." //The Whitehorse Star// (Whitehorse), 27 November 1996.)) He was hired at United Keno Hill Mines in 1952. He spent thirty years there, documenting everyday life in the community through his photographs.((Genesee Keevil, “A slice of Yukon life for sale.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 17 November 2010.)) He deserves a place in the ranks of Vancouver's internationally acclaimed photo realists, but he thought of himself as a working man with a hobby. Bradshaw usually worked with a 35mm Leica and used both B&W and colour stock.((Michael Scott, "Mechanic's hobby creates legacy of Yukon gold." //The Vancouver Sun// (Vancouver), 27 June 1998.)) He used transparencies and artificial light, advanced techniques for the time.((Adam Killick, "Eye for detail elevates photographer's art." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 4 December 1996.))
	
A bank manager in Elsa was going to make a calendar of his prints and a large number of his images were destroyed in a fire. The current collection is 200 slides. Sixty print images were curated by Yukon photographer Robin Armour and opened at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery. ((Genesee Keevil, “A slice of Yukon life for sale.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 17 November 2010.)) The exhibition //Yukon Friends// was first shown in Whitehorse in 1988.((Adam Killick, "Eye for detail elevates photographer's art." //The Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 4 December 1996.))