February 2012
6 posts
Work in Progress
I’m currently shooting a photo series examining juxtapositions between what we studied in school and what we do for gainful employment.
Here’s, Brendan. He studied Journalism at Ryerson University and currently works at the Word Bookstore (a significant Montreal institution in and of itself).
The project is in its early days but I’m eager to share some rough scans. I’ll...
No.11 Jam Session
Basements, instruments and Ilford film. Things I love.
Honourable mention: boys in plaid.
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
14 posts
“One of my favorite quotes is “Done is better than perfect.” That...”
– http://the99percent.com/articles/7118/Facebooks-Ben-Barry-On-How-To-Hack-Your-Job
Photographer: Simon Vahala →
Simon Vahala disabled downloading of his images so I don’t have a direct image to post but I wanted to respect his wishes and at least post a link. It’s well worth seeing. I was especially fascinated by this portrait.
Portrait of Anton Chekhov. Osip Braz, oil on canvas. 1898.
Fortune has it that I managed to procure a copy of Murakami’s 1Q84 just before the holidays so I can fully immerse myself within its smooth pages free of distractions. Well, at least until early January, though I’m hoping to have finished the enormous tome by then. (Currently hovering at 263 out of 925 pages, I really...
This 2012 expect a lot to do with portraiture featured here. I feel compelled to spend a lot of time on this.
Lovers’ quarrel.
Soundtrack to take a walk to.
Photos from my birthday karaoke party coming soon. Also, I’m officially finished the semester and now I get to indulge in all those personal projects I had to hastily cast aside earlier this month. Life is amazing.
Research.
Inspiration for a potential book project and photo series I hope to develop about a tragic hero businessman finding the delicate melancholy in such things as a bran muffin for one at precisely 7:52 a.m. or the meaninglessness of existence while crammed into his awkward seat on the subway. I don’t know. I somehow pictured my protagonist kind of like Jacques Tati. At the very least, he...
“The best advice I could possibly give you, and forgive me if this seems glib, is...”
– Talent Is For Shit (via bradw)
Thanks Barry Moser, for the much needed kick in the ass.
November 2011
11 posts
“The truth is no portrait of substance has people smiling. Look at the history of...”
– Rodney Smith
The End Starts Here via, wizwow
(via jesuisperdu) I’ve been thinking a lot about the art of portraiture and my absolute fascination with it. As someone who is pretty socially awkward, the camera has always been a safe place for me to hide behind - until I’m shooting a...
Incredible light painting by photographer Mary Elam. Go see more.
Friday Night Playlist
On the advice of a good friend I decided to take tonight off and chill out, take a bath, rock a mud facial and enjoy all the b-movies that Netflix has to offer. Then somehow my curvilinear journey via the information superhighway led me on a 90s hip hop retrospective. This is how we chill from ‘93 till…
You know, Photography, I love you but I think we need a little space.
If you’re in Toronto come see some of my prints that will be showing at this year’s IMA Gallery Silent Auction/Fundraiser. For more info check out the IMA Gallery website. Opening night is December 1st and I will totally be there so come say hello! Less than 2 weeks left of school. I was strangely calm a few days ago, serene even. I felt like I was totally on top of things. And...
Algonquin Park. August 2011. Highlights of my first camping trip: waking up blinded by mist; coffee made by an excessively complex process of alchemy and desperation (tasted heavenly but was always slightly cold); ice cold baths in the lake; observing chipmunks, snakes, and sparrows; the milky way.
View the set in its entirety here.
Me and fellow photographer/friend, Alex, on Halloween.
Photo by callanfield:
“I think it takes quite some time to find your own voice and vocabulary as a...”
– Nick Turpin (via pixfeedla)
Old Montreal
Ave Mont-Royal Facing East from Papineau via http://www.montrealphotos.org/ My mom sent me this amazing link showing old photographs of Montreal. Montreal is a really historic city that barely ever changes and so many of these places are totally recognizable. (St. Joseph hasn’t changed at all.) It’s odd to think that I lived near this street about 100 years or so after this photo was...
St. Clair West.
Interview with Photographer Joao Canziani →
Absolutely worth the 5 minutes it took me to read this.
joaocanziani:
mullitover:
JONATHAN CHERRY: Any advice to recent photography graduates?
JOAO CANZIANI: Yes. Read the above to mean that in my opinion you cannot get stuck in the ivory tower of your own dreams and personal projects. You must go test your ideas in the real world. Not only you must go out there and shoot them, you must...
October 2011
20 posts
Algonquin Park. August 2011.
Work in Progress
I am in the process of furiously trying to edit a number of large format photos I took last weekend at Occupy TO. My good friend Emily and I went down to St. James Park, set up a mini studio, and took a series of photos of the Occupiers. While this is a heavily documented event, I thought it would be worthwhile to slow things down and engage with the protesters by using a 4x5 camera and taking...
Miranda July
Posing as extras from famous films (for Vice Magazine with Roe Ethridge).
Go see here. It’s utterly brilliant. I’m quite impressed with how versatile Miranda July can look. (I guess Cindy Sherman isn’t the only photographer chameleon.)
I kind of feel like I’m in the scanning k-hole. I’ve been in this lab for two days straight, approximately 5 to 6 hours at a time....
Algonquin Park. August 2011.
Olya Ivanova Portraits
I was really moved by these portraits by Olya Ivanova that I recently saw in LPV Magazine. I also just found myself enraptured by her portfolio.
Sometimes I get really cynical about photography and then I see something like this and I realize that there is amazing and beautiful and highly creative work out there. I’m feeling most inspired these days. I’ll be posting some of my own...
Dragged myself out of bed at 5:45 this morning to catch the sunrise. Still managed to be a little late (I’m hopeless) but thanks to Jono being amazing and actually getting up with me to assist, as well as the miracle that is coffee, I managed to get through today’s shoot. I think something a little magical happened with me and the Cambo this weekend. You know when two totally...
