Ottawa photographer Jeff Thomas receives GG award for visual art

Forty years ago, a car accident changed Jeff Thomas’ life.In 1979, the Indigenous photographer was driving home to Buffalo, N.Y., after a visit to his family’s Southern Ontario reserve, Six Nations of the Grand River, with his then-wife (actor Monique Mojica) and young son (A Tribe Called Red’s Bear Witness) in the car.They had plans to move to the reserve and build a home, but Thomas still had to get back in time for his shift at the auto factory. Despite trying to push throug