Islands
I just had the pleasure of photographing Islands for ANTI- records. It was an unseasonably warm fall afternoon, and we decided to walk around Toronto’s Bloordale/Brockton Village area and just improvise. Nick told me about a mutual friend’s father – Dr. Gabor Maté – who is treating drug addiction with a powerful hallucinogenic plant from [...]
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Friend & Fixer: Firas
As a fixer, Firas has helped me navigate corners of Lebanon I didn’t know existed, charmed soldiers at checkpoints and gotten me into the living rooms of some of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met. As a friend, he’s offered me advice on everything from love to spiritual fulfillment and opened his heart, his [...]
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Fireworks Technician
The Discovery Channel/Omni hired me to shoot stills for Pyros, a reality show about a group of professional fireworks technicians in Quebec. Predictably, I had a blast. Here’s a sequence of photos from La Fête nationale du Québec, June 24, 2011.
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Trucks
Noisy, large, dangerous… I haven’t been a fan of trucks since I outgrew my Tonka toys. Still, I can’t help photographing them. Photographs from Beirut, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario:
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Occupy Toronto
I spent an afternoon speaking with people and photographing around the Occupy TO site, then followed the protestors as they marched to Bay St. and then on to Queen’s Park. It struck me that the main criticism of the Occupy movement is also its greatest strength; the great diversity of ideas and the vast number [...]
