Lois Siegel gets ready to show her stuff.

(Ottawa, June 29) - Award-winning director and photographer Lois Siegel will soon have a portion of her large collection of still images on display in Ottawa. Promoted by L'Alliance Française, the show will feature just some of the celebrites and stars captured by the filmmaker over the past 35 years.

The list reads like a Who's Who of the world's most famous people. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve (pictured), Gerard Depardieu, Clint Eastwood, Dizzy Gillespie, Hugh Grant, Irving Layton, Sophia Loren, Charlie Mingus, Jeanne Moreau, Linus Pauling, Sting, Pierre Trudeau and Nicholas Cage, to name just a few.

The Ottawa-based Siegel is a filmmaker, photographer, writer, professor, and musician. Her collection of “Célébritiés/Stars” is becoming well-known and is constantly growing. She has photographed over 350 celebrities as an on-going project.  Her work now appears on CDs, in books and movies. Her largest show to date was an exhibition of 120 photographs at Complexe Des Jardins during The Montreal World Film Festival in 2002. A number of her photos appear on the pages of this website and there are links from the director's page. Siegel worked as a stringer for Down Beat magazine which led to her taking a large number of photos of jazz muscians. She also worked as a writer and photographer for Cinema Canada which allowed her to get close to actors and directors from around the world adding to her collection of celebrity photographs.