En Route!

Happy February! The best part of it being the first of the month is that the new EnRoute magazine is out on Air Canada flights everywhere!

And that means HOW many people are going to thumb through it and see my photos?...kind of exciting.
What I was not aware of when I was shooting that I was taking photos of places that Jim Cuddy from Blue Rodeo had chosen...

Anyways, since I'm not flying anywhere I have to wait for copies and my pdf, but you can see them in internet form HERE: http://enroute.aircanada.com/en/articles/jim-cuddy-yaletown:





And after looking at my photos, go check out one of my best and extremely talented friends: Robyn McCallum's work in the very same magazine:
http://enroute.aircanada.com/en/articles/hockey-nights-in-canada

Salt & Earth

So my time in Toronto came to an end...and I'm back in rainy Vancouver once again.

I'm very excited because a few opportunities and projects have come up from this trip. One quite random, while the other was conceived without my knowledge, sprung upon me and then kicked into high gear over brunch and beers at the Rex.
More on both at a later date, but rest assured, I am... to use a west coast term... stoked.

Here is a screen shot from Jon's website showing a stitch that I shot and put together of his work up in the gallery (no credit? shame.) after roughly 10 hours of installing it the night before:


I have dark circles and bags under my eyes from spending 75% of my time in Toronto working on the show. But I am EXTREMELY pleased at how it turned out and hopefully Jon will sell some work and get some buzz.
And just wait until you see the time lapse that I took of the opening...it's a Where's Waldo of the guests/the photography world, including cameos by Bruno Barbey and Stephen Bulger. In fact I got to speak (in French, thats right...thank you Mme. Buckner) to Bruno and he said that he really enjoyed the variation in size of the photos and particularly liked the one of the tractor.

Here are a few shots from the week/opening:
Printing at Pikto in the dark with Jon for 4 hours. Mill St. was needed post-production.

Day two of Framing. We're hiding our dark circles/bags.

Devin Jeffrey. Lightmaster.

After party at the wonderful Rasputin Vodka Bar (they made a green martini and called it Salt & Earth). This is Jon and Sas having the Vodka Taster.

Schmoozing...

After weeks of packing and then a trip to Port Colborne (photos eventually, when I can finally scan the 120mm film that I shot white there) Jon and I made our way back to Toronto. For almost a week now we've been camping out in our friend Robyn McCallum's couch/futon. Jon's just finished the Magnum Workshop for the CONTACT festival and we went out to the exhibition opening at 80 Spadina.

(Jon and Dom's names were missing from the list and I was instructed by Emily and Larry to put them up with labels, so I did)




After hanging out with Larry Towell for a few hours, we went home got pizza and then went over to Sarah & Kaja's house for a bit...after which we raided Sobey's for breakfast foods, ate them and crashed.





Now we get to relax for FIVE whole days and then at 7am it's off to Vancouver finally.