INVITATION
USER Men opens this coming Friday. Seven to ten, September the
third at Gallery La Petitie Mort.

Invitation, front and back
The shooting I was doing last year was very much about expression and
gesture, and the exhibition will be about that process. Six of the many
men I photographed last year will be represented in the show. [...]

The other day my friend Michael Tardioli dropped by to help me with some
printing problems. (Not technical problems, aesthetic ones.)
While he was here he mentioned that he thinks I post too many new pictures
on drool, that I should hold some back for later, on my website, or something.
Well, that’s just not the way I roll. [...]

Lots and lots of photos on drool this week.
That’s because i’m showing you droolers some time lapse photography.
Not your typical time lapse, though. No.
The time that has lapsed between the frames below is one and two and
three and four years………
OVER TIME
As droolers know, this is my 4th (and last) year shooting USER. Over
those [...]

PORTRAITURE
I’m (mostly) a portrait photographer. The images from USER are portraits.
That’s what I’m shooting down on the corner. Portraits.
But I know that they also fall into some weird space between portraiture
and sociology, anthropology and document. Maybe a bit of art.

Rikki and Crystal, Ottawa, 2010
The photos are so quiet, so contained. What you don’t [...]