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Beaches historical sight: East of Silver Birch

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Toronto historian Richard White has recently completed an original new history of the Beaches neighbourhood that should be out and... Read More

Photographing Toronto’s suburban strip malls

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With an essay by Orly Linovski. A documentary project focused exclusively on the architecture of suburban strip malls: this idea... Read More

From Sunlight Park to East Harbour, Part 2 of 2

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This second part of my feature on Lever Brothers soap and detergent manufacturing in the lower Don Valley will examine the... Read More

From Sunlight Park to East Harbour (Part 1 of 2)

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In July, 2021, the developer Cadillac Fairview introduced a revised plan for the transformation of the former Unilever soap... Read More

The fading of the garment district factories: McGregor Socks, Spadina Avenue, 2003

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In 2003 I began a two part documentary photography project featuring the McGregor Socks knitting mill on Spadina Avenue, and the Korex... Read More

Achtung! Go for a German Walk T.O.

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Over the summer and fall I was happy to work with a team put together by the German Consulate in Toronto on a series of audio walks... Read More

Camera Shy : Downtown Bathurst Street

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As a documentary photographer of architecture, I take a strictly non-hierarchical approach to recording Toronto’s urban fabric. I see... Read More

Recording Hart Massey’s Factory and Concert Hall

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In 1986, I photographed the historic, sprawling Massey Ferguson farm machinery plant in Toronto just as demolition work was getting... Read More

Vacant Queen Street West: a pandemic photo essay

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Queen Street West has always been a revolving door of independent businesses. Starting at the bottom of Parkdale, Queen Street is an... Read More

Research Road Redux

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During the Second World War, my mother, Louise MacCallum, was among the 7,500 employees of Research Enterprises Limited (REL), a... Read More