Sweet Dreams are Made of this
A man lies sleeping at the corner of Queen and Bay in downtown Toronto, five minutes walk from the G20 security perimeter, and a few feet from a Starbucks and a Toronto Dominion...
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The Wall
Dear Mr. Harper, What were you thinking? What’s the deal with this ridiculous wall you’ve erected in downtown Toronto? It’s tacky and boring, like utility shelving. This is how you showcase our city...
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Set your Controls for the Heart of the Sun
This picture was taken with a Meikai EL toy camera loaded with expired colour film and pointed into the sun-drenched woods in the hopes of getting this cheesy circle effect (a known optical...
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Don Middleton (Pride Past and Present)
This image of Don Middleton was taken at Toronto Pride’s 2007 parade and was the inspiration for my 2008 exhibit Ready for Prime Time, a collection of portraits of older gay men (excuse...
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The Bottom Line
I don’t know this man. I don’t know his story, how he lost his legs or why he’s sitting on a wheel chair in front of a convenience store holding an empty paper...
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Hope
I was trying for an old Soviet-era Zorki 4 rangefinder on eBaY this morning but didn’t win the auction, which means one less camera to worry about. Still, it would have been nice...
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Pride Toronto Luminaries Give Back Awards in Protest
Jane Farrow, Pride Toronto’s 2010 Honoured Dyke, today joined 21 other honorees from this and previous years to return her award to the organization that oversees our city’s annual Pride Festivities. Her reason...
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Cycling on the Beltway
Taken with a Vivitar OM-mount 35mm 1:2.8 on a Canon 20D at 1/1000th sec., f/16 and ISO 100 while walking the dog on the Gardiner Beltway just before sunset. I was practicing my...
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Slide
One of the great things about being a photographer is meeting and talking to other photographers, like the great Paul Till, who has captured some of the greatest names in the music business,...
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The View from the Cheap Seats
I grew up in the shadow of Jarry Park in Montreal. On warm nights, we’d sit out on the balcony of our Park Extension home and listen to the roar of the crack...
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