Street Projects
Street Projects
2012 Chevrolet Camaro RS: The Bumblebee at the Cruise-In
Most of what I shoot on these Monday nights wears chrome and was built before I was driving. This one was the loud exception, the newest car in the lot by half a century, yellow with black racing stripes and a little bee on the flank, parked a few spots from a lime...
Tim Hortons Street Photography — A Canadian Icon
Walk into any Tim Hortons in Canada and sit down for a few minutes. Actually look. You will find seniors who have been coming to the same table since before the current staff was born. A runner still wearing her race bib from the morning's event. Teenagers...
1958 Edsel Pacer: Ford’s Famous Flop Up Close
There are cars people forget, and there are cars people remember for being a flop. This is one of the famous flops, and it was sitting in the same Richmond Hill lot north of Toronto where I find most of these, wearing an Ontario vanity plate that read BIMM 4 and a...
Yonge Street Photography: Walking the Walk
Everyone on Yonge Street has somewhere to be. You can see it in the stride, head forward, arms swinging, the whole body committed to a direction. They're not performing for anyone. They're not thinking about a camera. They have somewhere to go. That is...
1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible in Richmond Hill
Turquoise over white, the top folded down, and a plate that reads 56 DREAM. A 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible sits in the lot with the late sun pouring over it, and it looks exactly like the decade everyone thinks they remember. This is the middle child of the...
Toronto Street Photography — Interesting People on the Street
It happens before you can think about it. Something in your peripheral vision registers differently from the stream of pedestrians, and the camera comes up before you have consciously decided to take a picture. I have been doing this long enough to trust...
1948 Mercury Eight Coupe at a Richmond Hill Car Meet
It was parked nose-out in the Canadian Tire lot with the low sun coming straight down the hood, and the whole front end was lit up like a piece of jewellery. A 1948 Mercury Eight does that to you. White over a brushed silver hood, a chrome grille made of nothing but...
Toronto Window Reflections: Street Photography Through Glass
A shop window in this city is never just a window. It is two pictures at once, the people inside living their evening, and the whole street behind me printed over them in the glass. That is the reason I keep coming back to Toronto window reflections. You get the diner...
1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III in Richmond Hill
It is the size that gets you first. A 1958 Lincoln Continental Mark III is nearly nineteen feet of car, a copper-coloured land yacht that needs a parking space and a half. Out at a Monday-night meet north of Toronto it sits among the Chevys and the Mustangs like an...
Toronto Sunny Day Street Photography — When the Light Fights Back
There are days when the city turns itself on. The sun comes down the street at an angle and the ordinary things, the brick facades, the traffic signals, the people walking home, stop being background and start being subjects. Toronto sunny day street...
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air at a Richmond Hill Car Meet
Red over white, and a plate that reads GLENN 55 so there is no mistaking the year. A 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air sits at the front of the lot with the low sun firing straight through the windshield, and the chrome is doing most of the work. This is the first of the...
Toronto Sunday Street Photography: Chilling on a Sunday
Sunday morning in Toronto moves at a different speed. The same streets that push commuters through on a Monday are full of people who showed up because they wanted to. Nobody has a meeting. Nobody is late. The city belongs to whoever decides to come out...
1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible in Richmond Hill
It sat low and turquoise in the corner of the Canadian Tire lot, and I changed direction before I had decided to. A 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible does that to you. The colour alone, a deep Marina Turquoise that goes almost black in shadow and lights up like water where...
A Yellow Porsche 356 at the Yorkville Car Show
Park a car at the Yorkville show that is sixty years old and barely bigger than a bathtub, and it will still stop more people than the million dollar hypercars sitting twenty feet away. That is what this little coupe was doing on Bloor Street on Father's...
A Matte Black McLaren 720S at the Yorkville Car Show
Father's Day on Bloor Street, and the quietest thing at the whole show had both doors pointing at the sky. It sat low against the curb in a satin finish so flat it seemed to drink the noon sun instead of reflecting it, a matte black McLaren 720S with a...
Shelby Cobra 427 Roadster at the Yorkville Car Show
Father's Day on the Mink Mile. Bloor Street closed to traffic and lined with cars worth more than the condos above them. I was working through the crowd with the Leica Q3 when a flash of deep blue stopped me cold. Silver stripes over the hood, side pipes down the...
Black & White No. 4
Light is the whole game in black and white street photography. Not the subject, not the composition. The light first, and everything else follows. When the shadows are deep enough and the highlights are hard enough, black and white stops being a choice and...
Ferrari 599 GTO: A Rare V12 on a Toronto Street
Ferrari built 599 of these and sent only about 125 of them to North America. So a Ferrari 599 GTO is not a car you expect to find at a Toronto curb on a Sunday, with shoppers walking past carrying Fabricland bags. But there it was at the 2025 Yorkville...
Ferrari 488 Challenge Evo: A Race Car on Bloor Street
A Ferrari 488 Challenge Evo is built to do one thing, and driving down a public street is not it. It is a track-only race car, 670 horsepower from a twin-turbo V8, with no licence plate and Pirelli slicks that only make sense on a hot circuit. So there is...
Colourful City: Toronto at Full Volume
Walk out of the subway at Yonge and Dundas on a Friday evening and give it thirty seconds. The digital billboards are the size of buildings. The fountain jets catch the coloured light and scatter it across the wet square. There are neon signs, lit storefronts, food...