| About the photobloggers
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Sam Javanrouh
wvs.topleftpixel.com
The son of an acclaimed Iranian cinematographer, Sam immigrated from Tehran to Toronto in 1999. He found work as a graphic designer and quickly moved to a senior position at a local post-production house. Finding time between deadlines, Sam created his photoblog—Daily Dose of Imagery—which quickly gained notoriety in cyberspace, as well as being featured in The Toronto Star, Spacing, CBC Radio 3, and BBC. Sam was recently selected as Toronto’s number one Blog in 2004 by NOW magazine, won best Photography of a blog at the 2005 Bloggies, and was chosen the Best Photoblog in the 2005 Photobloggies.
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Matt O'Sullivan
thenarrative.net
Matt is a designer and digital props master for motion pictures. While in Toronto or travelling, he captures the small moments and stories of random people. His photoblog, was recently featured in Shutterbug magazine, and was the monthly feature for September 2005 at photoblogs.org. Currently, thenarrative.net in the final 5 the “Best Photography in a Weblog” Bloggie award. Matt participated in Contact 2004 at David Mirvish Books. His pictures have appeared in various publications, including Spacing, CBC Radio 3 and FILE.
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Rannie Turingan
photojunkie.ca
Rannie Turingan is a Toronto-based photographer who has a love for good live music photographing some of the city’s top indie acts. In recent years, Rannie has found himself capturing the various faces and facades of Toronto. Turingan has also founded two community sites at toronto.photobloggers.org and gtabloggers.com. Don't be surprised if you catch him along the street crouched down in front of a bike rack—he has a fetish for capturing images of bicycles in captivity.
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Gayla Trail
makinghappy.com
Gayla is a designer, author, artist, and creator of the acclaimed gardening website YouGrowGirl.com. Her work has been featured in magazines, books, and newspapers across North America. Gayla lives in Toronto, where she and partner, Davin Risk, run their design studio, Fluffco. Gayla began her personal site, Making Happy, as an “online sketchbook”, but gradually shifted the focus to feature photographs as her renewed interest in photography grew. Gayla prefers to work with film and utilizes a spectrum of unusual cameras; from simple toys to fidgety Russian knock-offs. Her preferred formats are square or panoramic.
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Jonathan Day-Reiner
groundglass.ca
Jonathan is an IT manager by day and lives in St. James Town with his wife Carla. In addition to the pages of Spacing, his shots have been featured in Surface Online and CBC Radio 3. He carries a camera with him everywhere he goes, and maintains a daily photoblog.
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Davin Risk
lowresolution.com
Davin is a designer and artist based in Toronto. Davin runs design studio, Fluffco, with partner Gayla Trail. Davin began his personal site, low resolution, as a testing ground for interactive interfaces and aesthetics but re-launched the site in a simplified form in April 2003. As a renewed interest in photography grew, the focus of the site quickly shifted to presenting images on an almost daily basis. Despite a deep involvement in new media, Davin prefers to practice photography on film. In January 2005, Davin co-founded MakingRoom—a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making.
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Adam Krawesky
inconduit.com
Adam has been photographing people in Toronto's streets on a daily basis for the past three years. He uses his web site as a point of transmission for the beauty he sees in the face of every person rendered anonymous by the city.
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About the exhibit
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Spacing and the Toronto Free Gallery present PUBLICity, a five-week photo exhibit examining Toronto's urban landscape and public spaces as captured by the city's top photobloggers. By gathering together these highly-regarded multimedia artists, PUBLICity will showcase the variety of life that arises from our unique city.
Please join us Thursday April 21 (7-11pm) at the Toronto Free Gallery (660 Queen St. East) as we wrap-up this beautiful show with a little party. Toronto’s photobloggers are some of the most popular in the world. Each day, over 20,000 people visit the websites of the photobloggers taking part in PUBLICity. Come meet the artists and talk to them about their work. Their images have graced the pages of Spacing, or your computer screen, but now you have the chance to examine their captivating photographs up close.
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Toronto Free Gallery hours
Wednesday to Friday 11am-6pm; Saturday 12-6pm.
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Photobloggers are a new breed of multimedia artists, combining their internet and photography skills to publish daily visual slices of life through their websites. Unlike a portfolio website or an online gallery, which can become static and dated, a photoblog is dynamic as it is published frequently with new images for visual consumption and judgement. In Toronto alone, there are over 100 documented local photoblog sites listed on toronto.photobloggers.org (a hub for blog activity in Toronto), and thousands more from around the world are listed on photoblogs.org (a global directory of photoblogs and resources).
Over the last five years we have seen the rise of the digital camera market that has enabled people to capture their surroundings at a phenomenal rate. It has also empowered a new generation of photographers to flourish because of lower costs, instant results and a quick learning curve that only digital photography can provide.
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The organizers of PUBLICity would like to thank AutoShare for their generous financial assitance. AutoShare is dedicated to having a shared-vehicle within a 5-minute walk of anywhere in Toronto. Car sharing is crucial to the long term health of our urban environment—and economy.
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DOWNLOAD Media Release: click here
Contact Matthew Blackett, Spacing creative director and PUBLICity organizer, for any information.
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MAP to Toronto Free Gallery click here
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