Photos
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Before the Bentway: CBM Bathurst, 1998
The bent of the Gardiner Expressway flanking the west side of Bathurst Street currently functions as the eastern entrance to the Bentway, but when I...
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Yonge Street, Evening, November 6, 1965
A few of weeks ago, while searching the Toronto Telegram online archive for aerial photos of the historic industrial waterfront, I came across a...
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Exploring Liberty Plaza
On the morning of July 22, CBC Radio news reported on a suspicious fire that had occurred overnight at a commercial plaza near Eglinton Avenue East and...
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The photographic techniques of Toronto’s City Photographers
In May 2026, as part of the Contact Photography Festival, the City of Toronto Archives opened a new didactic exhibition entitled “Subseries 58: Department...
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The rise and fall of National Rubber
In February, 2026 a friend who lives in the Junction emailed me to report that demolition had begun at the site of the former National Rubber factory on...
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Dufferin street studios, 2017-2018
Give or take a few months, the productive life of the former industrial complex at 390-440 Dufferin Street spanned 115 years. What had been a single...
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Photographing the Finch West LRT
I am not a daily commuter, but as a documentary photographer of Toronto’s urban fabric, I depend on the TTC to get me to far-flung areas of the city where...
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Gerrard Street East Part 2, 2023-2024
The first part of this series focused on the section of Gerrard Street East between Broadview Avenue and the Carlaw-Pape development zone slated for a...
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Gerrard Street East Part 1, 2023-2024
In the spring of 2023, a friend who was familiar with my earlier documentary photography of the city’s main streets suggested that I consider doing a...
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Ontario Stockyards, 1991
The neighbourhood designation “Stockyards District” evokes indistinct memories of what for much of the twentieth century was one of Toronto’s most...
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EVENT: On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025
The fifty photographs in the exhibition On the Edge – Photographs of Toronto’s Downtown Waterfront 2023-2025 collectively present a record of the...
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The Last Survivor of a Historic Streetscape
On a recent Saturday evening, while travelling westbound toward Parkdale on the 504 King streetcar, I noticed something was missing from the familiar...
By Peter MacCallum