Award winning photographer Duane Prentice has been a full time documentary photographer since 1996 and has worked with a news feature agency that represents leading photographers throughout the world for editorial and commercial assignments. In 2004, Duane joined Network Photographers UK, the world's leading independent photographic agency. His work has taken him throughout the Americas, East Timor, Sudan and the Middle East as well as India and Mongolia.

Duane documents environmental stories, social issues, international and development stories and travel pieces. His work has included projects for Médecins Sans Frontières, and Orbis International Flying Doctors. His images have been published in various magazines around the world including Maclean's and LIFE and in 2000, participated in the worldwide M.I.L.K. (Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship) exhibition in New York and London.

During the past five years, Duane worked on In the Crucible a project documenting the lives of thirty people and families in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Obscured by the rhetoric of the war on drugs are individual people's lives and these images demand of us the courage to see things as they are and to not forget. Duane's project, In the Crucible, was awarded a 2001 National Press Photographer's Association Honourable Mention in the Magazine Feature Story Category and a Canada Council Travel Bursary to exhibit in Iraq in 2002 and a major retrospective opened in Vancouver May 2004 at the Interurban Gallery.

Duane lives in Victoria, Canada.