Pandemic Photography

Documenting the Decay

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the #graffiti makes for easier navigation inside the #crumbling #maze...

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#creeping through what #remains standing... barely... #peeling back the #layers to take a deeper look... what a difference between day and night...

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REVERIE

In that m0ment I lived and died a th0usand deaths Carried away by the rhythm 0f a #reverie D0 y0u #remember me? The fire… The electricity? Drunk 0n the taste of eternity Stained lips Inhale serendipity 0n m00nlit sh0re Exhale neverm0re

K.S. 2022

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and here we are… thousands of miles and many turns of the wheel later…

“A THOUSAND MILES

Watching the sun set

Through frosted windows

Careful not to blink

Or it all fades away

Someday is today

But I miss yesterday

And I’m afraid of tomorrow

Keep smiling through the sorrow

So much gained

But still so far to travel

Eyes keep opening

Wheels keep turning

There’s still so much I’m learning

The headlights keep coming

And the sky keeps darkening

It’s going to be a clear night

But a storm is never far away

And here we sit

The end like the beginning

Dark, but exciting

And lots of smiling

Soon it’s tomorrow

And I’m not so afraid

‘A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step’

And the wheels stop, the moon is high…

I take a step forward

the never ending begins…”

K.S. 2005

GREAT WHITE NORTH

Temagami

January 2005

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Still prefer the roar of #rapids to the roar of traffic and still take every opportunity to flow with the #rivers and sit with the #trees… and there’s still something special about an old printed photograph taken with a disposable camera… despite how limiting they could be…

RIVER RAPIDS

Ottawa River

Spring 2004

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then he opened the door to the #dark room… like a magician revealing the inner workings of a trick… the whole process of developing a #photo a kind of magic the digital age failed to fully capture in all its wonders and advances… each photograph its own unique piece of art… none exactly the same… everything about this photo is a #mistake… the focus and composition are all #wrong, the negative was #damaged, the photo wasn’t developed, rinsed or cut properly… yet somehow the mistakes only add to its #beauty…

“SHAPESHIFTER

What if you woke up one morning in someone else’s skin?

In someone else’s world?

Do you change your face or stay the same?

What do you do when all the rules have changed?

Who do you thank?

Who do you blame?

What do you do when you wake up in a dream?

When you can have whatever you want?

But nothing is what it seems…

Do you change your face or stay the same?

When the rules have changed

Who do you blame?

Who do you thank?

Who do you become?

When all the chips are down

Do you play it cool or act dumb?

What do you do when you wake up in someone else’s skin?

Do you try and escape?

Or remain within?

Do you stay the same?

When everything has changed…

Who do you thank?

Who do you blame?

When you can be what you want

But not who you are

When you’re not who you were

When you wake up a star

When you wake up in a world

That’s not your own

And all the rules change

When it’s all surreal

And everything is strange

What do you keep?

What do you throw away?

When the cards are down

And everyone wants to play…

Who do you thank?

Who do you blame?

For the questions?

For the confusion?

For the second chance?

When you wake up one morning

And nothing is the same

Who do you thank?

Who do you blame?”

K.S. 2004

THE WITCHS APPLE

Fall 2004

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“think of photography like painting with #light and #shadow” a great artist once told me before handing me an slr camera, 3 rolls of film and sending me out to #document the decay for the very first time…

URBAN PHOTOS

Greater Toronto Area

Fall 2004

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they say to know where you’re going you need to know where you’ve been… as much as I appreciate the charms of a disposable camera my childhood self would have killed for a limitless camera…

“There’s a wildness in me

A hunger in me

A side of me that longs to be free

There’s a wildness in you

A hunger in you

A side of you that longs to run too

To the mountains, to the seas

We’ll follow the wind

And rest amongst the trees”

K.S. 2005

ESCARPMENT VIEWS

Milton 2019

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the other #seasons were a different story… growing up in the #shadow of toronto it seems no matter how far I wander… the #escarpment pulls me back up it’s jagged #cliffs to take another #look at the urban sprawl creeping it’s way up…

ESCARPMENT VIEWS

Milton

Fall 2002/ Winter 2003/ Spring 2019

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back on the #summer shores of #lake #muskoka… trying to capture the sound of the waves… the smell of pine and water in the air… the feel of my favourite rock… the taste of wild blueberries… my #wanderlust was born in #bala #bay…

“Lost In

(The Eyes of a Picture)

That smile, those eyes

That chubby little hand

That squeezed just a little too tight

Perfection and innocence personified

I miss her

Still standing, still breathing

That little girl long gone

But still a memory

I miss her

I wonder if she sees me now

If she knew that nothing lasts forever

Maybe I’ll find her one day

Frog in hand, smile in tact

Forever clutching victory

I miss her

But she’s still standing

And I’ll keep searching

For those innocent blue eyes

And the life that was never theirs to keep

For that perfect moment that never lasts”

K.S. 2006

COTTAGE VIEWS

Bala Park Island

Summer 1999

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THE FOOLS JOURNEY

in life we are all THE FOOL many times over… naïve… #reckless even… filled with wonder… embarking on new #adventures… starting anew…

THE FOOL rides the spiral towards completion; coming back to the lessons over and over again to understand them on a deeper and deeper level… so where does one journey end and another begin?

mine began with the click of a #disposable camera…

SWING IN MOTION

Welland

October 2002

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“𝐼 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉’𝓈 𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉. 𝒜𝓃𝒹, 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓂𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉, 𝓌𝒽𝓎, 𝐼 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝒸𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓀𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓉 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐼 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓁.”

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"𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝑒𝑒, 𝓌𝑒'𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝓂𝓅𝓁𝓎 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒."

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“𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴, ℑ 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔞𝔰 𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔶 𝔞𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔰𝔢𝔢𝔪𝔰! 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔶 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔶 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔲𝔫? ℑ𝔱 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔢! 𝔑𝔬𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔢, 𝔦𝔫 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔱, 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔪𝔢! 𝔚𝔥𝔶, ℑ 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔞 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔰 𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔢! 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔞 𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔬𝔫 ℑ 𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔡, ℑ 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡𝔫’𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔞 ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔪𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢! ℑ 𝔟𝔢𝔱 ℑ 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔱, 𝔱𝔬𝔬! 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱’𝔰 𝔢𝔵𝔞𝔠𝔱𝔩𝔶 𝔴𝔥𝔞𝔱 ℑ’𝔩𝔩 𝔡𝔬!”

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'𝒯𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒,

𝒩𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝓅𝑒𝒶𝒸𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁, 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒.

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝓊𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓂𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒,

𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉𝑒/𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒶 𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒!

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃, 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑜 𝓈𝓃𝓊𝑔 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒹𝓈,

𝒲𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝓀𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓉𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓈.

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝓊𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓌-𝒻𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝓃𝑜𝓌

𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓌,

𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒮𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒶 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓊𝓈'𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓈𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝒶𝓃𝓈,

𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒿𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝓁𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈.

𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇,

𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝓁𝑒𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝓀𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓉𝑜𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓇.

𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓈𝓀𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝑜 𝓊𝑔𝓁𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓀,

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓂𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉, 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒮𝓉. 𝒩𝒾𝒸𝓀!

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#remember... if you #break it, you #pay for it...

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now pick your favourite #colour and let's see if we can't find something to #paint... something festive perhaps...

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