'The Last Salute': See this photographer's portraits of 100-year-old veterans

The portraits of 40 Second World Warveterans over the age of 100living in SunnybrookMedical Centre are on display at the hospital this week.

Yuri Dojc's project, The Last Salute,opened for viewing on Monday andhonoursthe Canadian soldiers who fought almost 80 years ago.

"it's always about emotions," Dojc said.

He says his projects are generally rooted in the idea of freedom and escape, inspired by his success in getting outofCommunistCzechoslovakiain 1969.

He came to Canada and became a commercial photographer, which he describes as a "fabulous profession."

"You don't have to be perfect in English but you can express yourself through picture," he said.

Dojc's other projectsincludeportraits of Holocaust survivors and descendants of those who escaped slavery to Canada on the Underground Railroad.

This is hissecond time working with Canadian veterans from the Second World War having photographed them for his book Honourin 2010.