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08.27.10Arctic Expedition Part II: Eastern GreenlandSo, part deux of my travelogue will feature crossing the Greenland Sea, encountering a lot of sea ice, and eventually exploring the breathtaking and exotic (yes, exotic), Eastern coastline of Greenland. After we left Svalbard, we headed North and crossed 80 degrees North. Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but the North Pole is at 90 degrees (naturally), so when we crossed 80 degrees, that put us about 600 miles from the North Pole. To help put it in perspective, Toronto is at 43 degrees North, Los Angeles is at 34 degrees North...you get the picture. Next up was ...
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08.17.10Bilaal Rajan for Toronto Life MagazineLast month, I photographed wonder kid Bilaal Rajan for Toronto Life magazine. Bilaal began fund-raising when he was four years old. He now goes shoeless for a week or so every year to raise awareness of people living in poverty. Here's how the portrait was laid-out in the magazine: I love seeing my portraits used in such a strong, graphic layout. Makes me fall in love with mag's all over again. Bilaal's incredible story can be seen in this month's Toronto Life magazine, which is on newsstands now.
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08.17.10Toronto’s Urban Farming featured in French GlamourBack in May, I had the extreme pleasure of shooting for French Glamour magazine and their lovely editor Myriam Weil. What made this shoot so interesting is that the piece we shot concentrated on the urban farming that is happening throughout Toronto, from the perspective of a progressive French beauty magazine. Myriam had really done her research, and we featured programs in Toronto that I had never heard of, namely: Not Far From The Tree - The core of our programming is our residential fruit-picking program, where we pick fruit from trees that would otherwise go to waste. We help ...
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08.16.10Arctic Expedition Part I: SpitsbergenAs some of you devoted readers know, a month ago I was awarded the job of a lifetime: document the Quark Expedition tourist experience aboard the Akademik Shokalskiy over two weeks, exploring the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, as well as Eastern Greenland, and Iceland. The trip did not disappoint, and it truly was the job, and trip, of a lifetime. As the expedition had three distinct destinations, I'll break-up my re-cap this week into three postings: Spitsbergen, Eastern Greenland, and Iceland. Our trip started in Longyearbyen, on the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen. It's a remote hamlet, but you wouldn't know it when ...
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07.05.10New Arctic AdventuresI'm thrilled to tell you all that I'll be returning to the Arctic later this month, working on a commission for Quark Expeditions. Quark specializes in Arctic and Antarctic Expeditions, and my job will be to profile the tourist experience, via stills & motion, of traveling to one of the most historic and remote regions on the face of the planet. The trip will last two weeks, under the Arctic's midnight sun, aboard the Finnish-built ship Akademik Shokalskiy. The trip starts with a flight from Oslo, to the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen at Longyearbyen. Spitsbergen is the largest of the ...
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06.07.10Smart Technologies for Report on Business.What do you get when you need to photograph the owners of a company that can't be photographed? You come up with an ingenious idea of integrating them into the very product they've become famous for. Smart Technologies produce interactive whiteboards, which are becoming increasingly popular in elementary school rooms. The Photo Editor Clare Jordan, and Art Director Domenic Macri of Report of Business magazine proposed the idea above with a few days to spare, and we were lucky to have a friend's child stand-in as the blackboard artist, and my assistant and wardrobe stylist stand-in for the owners of the ...
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06.04.10Teriano Lesancha, Massai Student for World Vision.Back in March, I had the pleasure of photographing Teriano Lesancha, a Massai student from Kenya, for World Vision's new magazine Child View. As a independent, semi-nomadic people, the Massai have never embraced religion or education, let alone world travel, so it was a very special treat to meet Teriano. My friend Michelle, who helped with Hair & Make-up, and I asked her an endless stream of questions (paraphrased below), which she was very kind to answer: Us: How old are you? Teriano: I don't know. Maybe 25. The Massai don't really keep track of their age. My father claims to be ...
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06.02.10Portrait of John Jones for Esquire Magazine.Back in April, I got a call from Michael Norseng, Photo Director at Esquire, asking if I'd be interested in shooting a piece for their upcoming "How to Be a Man" issue, profiling a grief counselor nicknamed Dr. Death. Where do I sign-up? An interesting turn to this assignment was that the writer of the piece is the son of Dr. Death (whose name is John Jones). I never really get to shoot with or collaborate with writers, so I was pretty excited to work with both son/writer, father/subject. I was equally excited when I found out that the writer was Chris ...
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05.27.10Hockeyland for The Walrus MagazineIdeally, this image for the Walrus magazine feature by David MacFarlane would have been shot on location. The article is about the writer attending hockey games in America’s sunbelt, and realizes the consequences of the NHL’s expansion south. I would like to have attended the games with the writer, or at least retrace some of his steps, stalking the sunbelt for his array of visual metaphors and observations (the piece is so well written and honest to the core). But, the production time line was tight, and the budget wouldn't allow for such a trip. So the Walrus creative team and I ...
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05.20.10Roots of Empathy for Time MagazineI had the pleasure of shooting for Time Magazine a few weeks back, documenting a ground breaking program called Roots of Empathy, which is based here in Canada. From their website, Roots of Empathy is: "an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression among schoolchildren by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy." It's an incredible program that utilizes a neighborhood infant and their parent, who visit a classroom every three weeks over a school year with the aid of a Roots of Empathy Instructor. The infant is in fact the "teacher", and helps children ...
