Yesterday I wrapped production on two very exciting projects that were shot simultaneously. “Ballet 360” and “Krump 360” were created by collaborating with The Big Freeze – a USA based company specializing in the ‘time slice’ effect. The concept of these projects was to trigger 48 DSLR cameras at the same moment aligned in a 360-degree ring. The result is what I consider to be ‘360-degree Photography’. These twin projects are an extension of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship I have been undertaking this year – ‘to explore the structural elements of the moving image’. The subjects photographed were dancers from Canada’s National Ballet School (Ballet 360) and dancers from Northbuck Entertainment (Krump 360). These projects would not have been possible without the help of such a dedicated cast and crew – I can’t thank them enough. I’ll be posting content and notes on the post-process over the coming weeks as I begin to work with the files and assemble images to a 360-degree view. Below is a look at the production process – photos by Photographer Melissa Tait.
NPR (National Public Radio in the USA) featured a write up on a few of my projects for their blog ‘The Picture Show’. Here’s a link to the post.
Someone pointed out to me last week that my project “Bugs!” was included in MediaStorm’s ‘Worth Watching’ list. Some great projects linked here. Check them out.
I photographed the Lady GaGa concert last night in Toronto. It was a very brief shoot, but ended up getting an image I really like given the circumstances.
Broncolor (distributed by Amplis in Canada) has been very supportive of my creative experiments with light over this past year as part of The Chalmers Arts Fellowship I am undertaking. The new Bron.ca website is up with a section that will develop shortly highlighting Canadian Photography talent – worth checking out.
I photographed Iron Maiden in concert last night for The Globe and Mail. The image below was taken with a 70-200mm lens. I was lucky to catch it, as I was focusing on Iron Maiden’s Drummer at the time, and pulled back to 70mm just in time to capture Lead Singer Bruce Dickinson jumping off a speaker. Here’s a link to the article.
I spent the afternoon of July 1st on Lake Ontario sailing with a bunch of friends. Here’s a cityscape of Toronto I took while on the water.
Last weekend I was covering the G20 Protests in Toronto for The Globe and Mail. This was my first experience covering an event with such a huge media saturation. Below is a very large edit of images that encapsulate what I covered over the weekend. I have a lot of thoughts regarding the events that transpired. I was blown away by the speed of social media coverage (twitter), I was amazed at the images some Photographers were able to produce given the circumstances and speed at which events unfolded, and I am now fascinated with comparing all the different angles of key events captured by dozens of Photographers – particularly events I was present for. I hope to write more about my experiences covering the G20 in the near future, but am quite busy right now with some excited projects in development – so for now, here is a big edit.
Earlier this week I took a few cast portraits of performers of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre. Here’s one of my favourite – Actress Abena Malika appearing in the play ‘Jitters’.
A few weeks back I was helping friend and Photographer Arash Moallemi with a creative project for a makeup company. Arash’s creative had both a still and motion component, and was lit with HMI units – the full project should be released shortly. Here’s a behind the scenes image I took on set.
