It was 40 years ago today (Aug. 27, 1970) I stepped through the front doors of the Canadian Press news agency, their office was then at 55 University Ave in Toronto, and thus began my career in photojournalism. I remember it was 9am on a Thursday, as Detective Joe Friday would say, when I entered [...]
Well after a hiatus of several months I finally got myself back into going through and sorting my film archive. I think I mentioned before I have my 25 odd years of film all stored in plastic bins. Its a Pandora’s Box every time I open any of the containers and in most cases can [...]
A truly modern scourge of working photographers in today’s digital everything are the frickin idiots with their cellphone camera. I can’t count the number of times I have been blocked by some nincompoop(s) sticking their cellphone up or out and blocking me in my never ending struggle for the perfect photograph. In most irritating cases [...]