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Photographer who enjoys capturing quotidian life. Documentary | Music | Street | Humanist | ART Media Jedi; Writer; A/V Producer; Web; Print. Author of several photo books. I keep the brutality of politics on X. Don't believe everything you think.
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A24 is getting out of the documentary business, and shutting its doc department down. More on the story right here. filmstories.co.uk/news/a24-doc...

Stan Brakhage was an non-narrative filmmaker. A friend and contemporary of Maya Deren, Marie Menken, Joseph Cornell and John Cage, he is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. At work on ‘Dog Star Man', 1963

A walk so smooth and confident I'm surprised he wasn't levitating. This is the kind of outfit I assume one would wear when using a high order pedestrian connection 😉 #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #storytelling #streetscenes

I don't post political here. However, this is the best thing I've watched in the longest while. Astonished how the producers were able to pull it off. A surprising cast of characters across the spectrum. Incredibly well done. This should be on every screen in America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qnb...

What was unexpected to find in this incredible #documentary on the invention of the Polaroid and its inventor, is a love story. One of art, science, and devotion. Also of ethics vs. ambition. Edwin Land and his Polaroid still continue to echo in today's #photography. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2X...

Too good not to share!

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

It's not so much the question of WHY are we here. It's more the question of... Are we there yet?

Hold on tight! #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #Toronto #storytelling #streetscenes

Just learned with great shock of the passing of Sebastião Salgado, one of the world's greatest photographers. The Brazil-born photographer was known for his dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty. An icon. A legend. RIP. apnews.com/article/braz...

More candid moments in the streets...this one I call The Three Faces of Eve. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #Toronto #storytelling #streetscenes

The unofficial start of Summer 2025. Cycling the boardwalk at sunset - Hamilton Ontario. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #fujifilm #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes #cycling

Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie The Odyssey is set to make cinematic history as the first major feature film to be shot entirely using IMAX cameras. Once considered too large, noisy, and unwieldy, all that has changed following a direct challenge from Nolan to IMAX. petapixel.com/2025/05/16/c...

Chasing a pillar of light. James Street @ Main, Hamilton. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes

Sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes

Once is not enough.

I made it a rule to try and keep the political posts on X... however, I thought I'd leave this one here. Thank you Prime Minister Mark Carney for delivering the message on behalf of all the owners of Canada. #CanadaIsNotForSale #CanadaStrong #Cdnpoli #Ai #ElbowsUp @mark-carney.bsky.social

There is an invisible world we're all living in together. Observation is the art of seeing what is invisible, bounded by our own unique experiences. Everyone has a human story. Let your heart see what is so often invisible to the eye. #StreetPhotography #photography #candidphotography #storytelling

Style is the perfection of a point of view. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes

Chair For One. (part of my ongoing street series on "Isolation") #StreetPhotography #photography #urbanphotography #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes #HamOnt

So grateful that I lived in the time of David Attenborough. Wish he could go on forever.

Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. #Jazz #Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgVq...

Tattered - from my ongoing "Isolation" street series. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #storytelling #StreetLife #streetscenes

AI is about to erase millions of jobs—starting with tech and spreading EVERYWHERE. Software engineers, legal, accounting, admin, customer service, manufacturing etc. It's going to be interesting when AI becomes so sophisticated that nobody understands it and there is no way to check its validity.

"Whatever you do," cried Brer Rabbit, "Don't throw me into the briar patch." Just another multiple-exposure diary. (Ricoh GR III in-camera multiple-exposure) #StreetPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #storytelling #multipleexposures

From my ongoing street series: Isolation #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #fujifilm #storytelling #StreetLife #streetscenes

Looking forward to checking out a couple of destinations for Doors Open Ontario in #HamOnt. A little shutter therapy this weekend! www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/pages/events...

April showers bring MAY flowers. Happy May day. I call this one, Inner-city garden meets "American Gothic". #StreetPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #storytelling #streetscenes

The old Kresge's Department Store, King & Hughson, #HamOnt From the archives. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #fujifilm #storytelling #StreetLife #streetscenes

"It's about the feel. Not the look." Today's multiple exposure diary. (Ricoh GR III in-camera multiple-exposure) #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes #multipleexposures

Mark Carney’s rare blend of financial acumen and global vision will serve Canada well—just as he steadied markets during Brexit and helped navigate Canada successfully through the financial crises of 2008. And now Trump. Here’s to strong level-headed leadership in uncertain times!

Sigh of relief tonight for Canada.

Chantal Hebert is a national treasure.

Vote wisely Canada. Today's the day! A vote for PP and the Conservatives is a vote for Trump.

Mending broken fences. If we all tried harder putting the pieces back together before they fell out of place, it would be more of a triumph of good character projecting a message of forgiveness, perspective and compassion, than a carrying out of act three of an undivine prophecy. #streetphotography

Seize them as Heritage Canada artifacts with no compensation to “shareholders”. They should be in museums! toronto.citynews.ca/2025/04/25/h...

From the multiple exposure diary. All the world's a mask. (Ricoh GR III in-camera multiple-exposure) #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #HamOnt #storytelling #streetscenes #multipleexposures

It's not the destination, it's the change of scene. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #fujifilm #storytelling #StreetLife #streetscenes

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. ~Jane Jacobs #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #fujifilm #storytelling #StreetLife #streetscenes

Either it's the Ministry of Silly Walks -- or we're really happy for a SHORT WEEK!! Have a good one folks. #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #Toronto #storytelling #StreetLife #streetphoto #streetscenes

On April 17, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II & Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the Proclamation of the Constitution Act that brought the Canadian Constitution, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, into effect, providing guarantees for human rights for all Canadians. Truly one of our finest moments.

Happy 43rd to the Charter [April 17, 1982] Photography is NOT a crime. At no time, and under no circumstances, is anyone in Canada subject to arrest for the simple act of taking a photograph in public. If you are a Canadian photographer, photographing in public, then you have every right to do so.

just put socks on right out of the dryer

Don't worry, be hoppy. Just follow the bunny, he has the chocolate! #StreetPhotography #CandidPhotography #photography #bwphotogrqphy #urbanphotography #monochrome #B&W #GR3 #GRⅢ #GR #GRist #Toronto #storytelling #StreetLife #streetphoto #streetscenes