Fluorescent traffic
I am in the process of choosing and editing photos to send Barbers Only Magazine for my profile on Krazy Kuts Barbershop. It’s proving harder to do than expected. There’s something about hundreds of naked fluorescent tubes spitting their nasty glare on a yellow-walled, half-basement shop that makes making things look good a little challenging. [...]
Barbershops old and new
Poring over ancient photo archives earlier today (sweet procrastination, when you hold me), I was reminded that my photographic obsession with barbershops wasn’t much of a novelty. I found a pile of pictures I’d taken at New York Cuts, up on Castelneau street, in my old Villeray neighborhood. The shots were for a photojournalism workshop [...]
Uptown barbershops
Just came home from a fresh foray of interviewing and photograph-taking down the streets at Krazy Kutz barbershop. The research for my feature article is progressing smoothly, if not particularly briskly. This time I got a chance to chat with Malcolm (shown above), who has been working alongside Ian Daley, the owner, for the past [...]