City Notes
Record the daily life and accidents that travel through the corners of Toronto. Between the streets, festival gatherings and suburban walks, those fleeting fragments and stories are captured by the lens here, leaving traces of temperature, light and shadow that are unique to this city.
-
Inside Hillcrest Mall in Richmond Hill, distancing markers, window displays, and sparse foot traffic reveal how the pandemic reshaped the order and appearance of a commercial space.
-
The pandemic disrupted traditional Halloween celebrations, leaving children unable to go trick-or-treating as usual. The camera turns instead to neighborhood decorations and alternative festivities, capturing how the imagination of Halloween endured amid disappointment.
-
A walk through Toronto’s Kensington Market, looking for the old neighbourhood’s vitality in its eclectic shops, colourful streets, and local characters, while observing the changes left by the pandemic.
-
At a rose show in Yorkville, flowers, luxury storefronts, and passing pedestrians share the frame, capturing a fleeting summer spectacle in the heart of the city’s shopping district.
-
After businesses reopened, I returned to Toronto’s malls to observe how retail spaces were cautiously resuming everyday life through discounts, foot traffic, window displays, and pandemic precautions.
-
A day spent walking and photographing—from downtown landmarks and morning runners to streetside benches—captures life returning to Toronto’s public spaces during the pandemic.
-
A chance encounter with the quiet remnants of a school’s graduation celebrations—an empty campus, colourful decorations, and traces of ceremony from an extraordinary year—evokes the youthful farewells that could not unfold as usual.
-
An eight-kilometre walk around Orangeville’s Island Lake, where shoreline, woodland, and seasonal scenery meet on a trail suited to hiking, cycling, and cross-country skiing.
