Vince Federoff
Vince Fedoroff was born in New Westminster, British Columbia. His grandfather was a portrait photographer in Winkler, Manitoba.1) Vince lived with his family in Hope, British Columbia where his father owned and operated the Mount Hope Hotel. He traded that hotel for the Penguin Hotel in Dawson. The Penguin was located where the Midnight Sun Hotel now sits. The family spent a year in Dawson, wintered in Swift River, and then moved to Whitehorse.2) The family arrived in the Yukon in 1964 and Vince started working at the Whitehorse Star newspaper in the mid-70s.3) In 1978 he took over the darkroom duties and about 1979 started as photographer and darkroom tech.4) Federoff experimented a lot when he first started, developing his film every day and only working in black and white. He left The Star in 1984 or ’85.5) He was a freelance photographer and did some contracts for the newspaper before he returned to The Star about 1999 to take over the photographer position.6)
In 2015, Federoff described himself as a struggling drum student, but he has been the drummer with the celebrated band Yukon Jack since 1990.7)