PinnedHow visualization can improve your travel photography.Do you want to capture a great looking ‘spontaneous’ photograph? Try planning it in advance. Have you ever watched an experienced diver prepare to launch themselves from a tall platform or rocky cliff edge? Sometimes, they stand for a long time, seemingly just staring out into space. It feels almost…Photography6 min read
PinnedThe last photographs I took of my father before saying goodbye forever.Tell me, can you see that painting? Are those daffodils? I’m really not sure I like that painting. Do you like that painting? Dad was starting to get agitated. Propped up in bed in the palliative care ward at St. Paul’s Hospital, he was leaning forward, squinting over at the…Mwc Death7 min read
PinnedHow I found my photographic purpose in a vacant lot during quarantine.What a couple of old abandoned delivery vans taught me about mortality, my relationship with my father, and why I shoot photographs. It is around 8 am. There is a firm knock on the door of my room. I’m staying in a hotel near Toronto airport as part of my…Photography9 min read
PinnedTrump’s legacy: have we all been the victims of narcissistic abuse?The arrival of Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony feels like watching in relief as a close friend sends a toxic and abusive partner packing. During the early years of Donald Trump’s presidency, I became obsessed with reading articles that probed the mental state of the then-new leader of the free world…Trump9 min read
Aug 20, 2021Looking Back — The Cinematography of JFKTogether with his virtuoso cinematographer Robert Richardson, Stone used a brilliant mixture of historically accurate footage and reconstructed scenes to present an alternative myth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. — JFK traverses the boundaries of documentary and political drama to make the compelling — if not always historically accurate — case that the murder of the President was a conspiracy at the highest levels of government.Cinematography10 min read