POV

This blog has been a little quiet lately, but my life has been a whirlwind.

I had a double page spread published in the April 27 edition of the National Post on a project that I have been working on for the last six months. I have been fairly quite about this project, but it focuses on a group of Krump dancers and their small apartment in Toronto.

Along with the spread, the post also published a video that I shot- Click Here

And if that is not enough, I will be exhibiting the work in the Contact Photography Festival. I will be showing the work at the Street Dance Acadmey- 160 Spadina Ave. http://streetdanceacademy.com/

http://www.contactphoto.com/view.php?sec=exhibitions&eventid=1579

I will be setting the work up tomorrow and it will be on display until May 29. I will be having a showcase galla on the 29, info is bellow. The event is open to the public and will feature a performance from the Northbuck Dance Crew.

Contact has been a huge process for me that started in December. I had to secure a venue, commit and register for Contact and obviously print the work. Lots of learning in the process, but it will hopefully work out.

I will be posting more info on Contact. I am really excited for the festival and I have already began my gallery tours.

I had a bit of an incident covering court today. To cover court stories, we shoot witnesses and people connected to the case, in the high profile cases we cover. Patrick Knowles was a witness in the murder case of Dennis Hoy, Knowles former roommate. Ashleigh Pechaluk is charged with first-degree murder, for allegedly killing Hoy with an axe, while Knowles slept in his bedroom.

At lunch break in the case, I followed Knowles outside of the court house and began photographing him. He asked why I was taking his picture and I responded it was for the paper.

He made a rapid advance towards me and responded “If I see my picture in the paper tomorrow” and smacked my camera, which was raised to my face.

My editors and I discussed charging Knowles with assault. I decided to let it slide; he has enough to worry about.

Apparently in court he testified that he does not have an anger issue.

Patrick Knowles strikes the photographer, at 361 University Ave. Court House, Thursday, April 16, 2009. Knowles is a witness in the trail of Ashleigh Pechaluk, 24, accused of striking Dennis Hoy with an axe and killing him.

I spotted the Google Street View car cruising the streets of Toronto Yesterday. Will be cool to see if I am on Google Maps when it is online.

A car operated by Google drives through a Toronto neighbourhood near the Distillery District, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. The vehicle is collecting photographs for Google Streetview, which will have a photograph of all of the street in Toronto and other major cities.

Adding two links to my link bar, two friends, great shooters here in Toronto- Toronto Star’s Carlos Osorio and the Globe and Mail’s Fred Lum.

Enjoy.

My good buddy Brent Foster is featured on Burn Magazine today- a good feature of Half Widows in India.

Good work Brent.

Link.