...I walk by the Canada Permanent Trust Building, and admire it. Finally I started carrying around my 'real' camera again so I could catch some of the details. Some of these are taken from a (ninth floor) window in my office, and some from the sidewalk on my way home. Imagine what your world would be like if there weren't beautiful things to look at.
No, I don't want to imagine it either.
I had posted a photo of an intriguing billboard on my photo journal blog (now merged with this blog) a few weeks ago. This very morning I noted that a smaller ad board nearby had some equally intriguing photographs posted in place of ads. I knew this stuff was an art installation of some sort, but I didn't know why it was there or where it came from.
A fella called Serge stumbled across that post today and kindly pointed me to the source of the photos on those billboards. It's a project by Jim Goldberg, presented at the corner of Spadina and Front Streets, as part of Scotiabank's CONTACT Photography Festival.
So I stopped on my way home and took some more photos (in very bright, read: bad, light). I love public art installations, and I love the compassion behind this project, in which the subjects were invited to take part in telling their stories. I'm all about that.
The sun was so bright, I couldn't tell what the photo below would look like until I got home. Technically it's shit, but I like that it shows the context (condo-land) of where this art installation is located - you can see bits of the installation amidst the surroundings. And there's me in the bottom corner, taking that blind shot.
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