Canadian Gothic
The dark romanticism of urban photography or something like that!
#Toronto
some days don’t go as planned but you still get the shot(s)
It's been a while but a few members of the TLR Club finally got together to go out shooting today! We were hoping to go somewhere exotic like Buffalo, but we couldn't get enough people together to make the trip worth our while and then we received several terrific tips on places in and around the Toronto Stockyards neighborhood to check out. Sadly we encountered security, limited access,...
looking forward to a winter of shooting
The departure of summer always brings a new season of shooting abandoned buildings et -al. I always manage to shoot more as the temperature plummets. My heightened activity could also be a result of easier access, lax/no security/no one is going to be paying attention to photographers trooping through the snow first thing in the morning in the dead of winter... I also love to re-shoot locations. One...
elegant 1990’s graffiti
In the mid-1990's this skull face was on every Calvin Klein TTC shelter ad along Queen St. West (Toronto) , which wasn't the gentrified condo/club land it is today. It was the era of heroin chic models and Queen St. West was gritty and miles from the mainstream. Queen West was CAMH (Center for Addiction and Mental Health), appliance/vintage shops on every block, indie art galleries and cheap...
A view from the CN Tower 1995/96
Toronto from the CN tower, circa 1995/96. I'm revisiting old photos of Toronto examining how I assessed the quality of my images and what I was printing and dismissing and thought it would be fun to share some of my fiber prints from my art school years. I primarily shot black and white in art school, it was inexpensive (Ilford bulk loaded) and I could process and print...