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Posted in Photos of the Week on Mar 16th, 2009
Promo photo for Dream Awake, an Australian band now based in Toronto. Check them out at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern on Tuesday April 7 as part of The Edge 102.1 Dave Bookman’s NU MUSIC NITE.
Posted in Photos of the Week, Portrait on Mar 10th, 2009
This week I photographed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell, the fourth of five profiles I’ve been working on for blogTO.
She is standing beside the famous Nick Ut photo of 9-year-old Kim Phuc screaming after a napalm explosion during the Vietnam war. Shelley’s award winning film, Kim’s Story, revisits the horrific and heroic story, [...]
Posted in Newspaper, Photojournalism, Photos of the Week on Mar 3rd, 2009
Juthi Shanmugam leads a large crowd from Toronto’s Tamil community in chants to “Stop the Genocide,” protesting of the ongoing violence in Sri Lanka at Dundas Square on Friday. Click here to read the full article.
Posted in Photos of the Week on Feb 24th, 2009
In the week that Obama visited Canada, it’s only appropriate I choose this photo. I especially love the metaphor of the snow and gray behind him.
Posted in Photos of the Week, Portrait on Feb 10th, 2009
This past week, I met and photographed two Toronto documentary filmmakers, Min Sook Lee and Alan Zweig, for a new series on BlogTO featuring, well, Toronto documentary filmmakers. This preview photo of Alan Zweig is in honor of his mirror trilogy.
Posted in Photos of the Week on Feb 5th, 2009
This week I developed a roll of 35mm film I’ve been using for the past few weeks on my old point and shoot camera. All the shots were intended for my Airborne series. It wasn’t a very successful roll, but that’s bound to happen.
I’m already half way into my next roll [...]
Posted in Photos of the Week, Portrait on Jan 27th, 2009
The title to this image is: After the Ballet.
Again, many thanks to Marisa for the time and patience as I tried to figure out how to light this.
Posted in Photos of the Week on Jan 19th, 2009
Last Thursday night, much of the West end of Toronto lost power. I was one of the unfortunate thousand that didn’t get power back until Friday evening. As much as the power outage was a bit of a pain on the coldest night of the year, it was a nice opportunity to get [...]
Posted in Photos of the Week on Jan 12th, 2009
Okay, so I’ll admit, it’s pretty lame to pick myself as the photo of the week, but…
1) This week on CBC Radio I heard about and was inspired by Canadian photographer Jeff Harris who has been taking a self-portrait each day for 10 consecutive years. Pretty impressive commitment. I thought I’d do it [...]
Posted in None of the Above, Photos of the Week on Jan 5th, 2009
I’m not the biggest hockey fan in the world but this was definitely my week for hockey. On New Years Eve a friend and I drove down to the World Junior Hockey Championship in Ottawa to see Sweden versus Russia. It wasn’t much of a game but it was definitely, as my friend [...]