Here is something young photographers – or photographers stuck in a landscape and sunset rut – might enjoy trying, especially now that finger-numbing weather appears to be fading, and Montreal’s general population confidently strutting from parka hibernation to all manners of ooh-la-la. This street photography exercise comes from Le Devoir photographer Jacques Nadeau, who assigned [...]
I happened to spy on this backyard party from a second floor balcony. The moms were sipping Boréale blanche straight out of the bottle, sitting on newly unfolded foldable chairs. I couldn’t tell what the girls were drawing (a pink alien with wraparound shades?) but the brown-haired one was definitely the one with a plan. [...]
This is a crazy plan I was saving for when I’d be done school: ride all of Montreal’s suburban trains to their daunting, suburban extremities, get off, walk around, and catch the next train home. You know, veni, vidi, vici, type deal, but with McMasterville subbing for fabled Zile. (I’m fully aware that this doesn’t [...]
Dear Journalism, (on the occasion of my finishing grad school) One word, dear friend, before I let you go back to your staff cuts: all that bullshit talk about you dying before I even get a stab at being a hot-shot investigative reporter, galoping across the steppes breaking pipeline scandals in Khirghizstan, whilst researching a [...]