The husband of the Canadian artist Mary Bell Eastlake, Charles Herbert Eastlake was a British painter. After training in Europe, he established himself in London and spent time with the plein air painters of St. Ives in Cornwall, where he met his wife.

Based in Montreal, Evergon (born Albert Jay Lunt) is an artist, educator, and activist with alter-egos including Cellulose Evergoni, Eve R. Gonzales, and Egon Brut. His wide-ranging contributions to photography have taken the form of photo-collage, colour photocopying, and experiments with the cyanotype, Polaroid, and hologram processes. He is celebrated for his elaborately staged tableaux, striking self-portraits, and sustained exploration of queer sexuality, masculinity, and social constructions of gender.